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File transfer protocol
XMODEM is a simple file transfer protocol developed as a quick hack by Ward Christensen for use in his 1977 MODEM.ASM terminal program. It allowed users to transmit files between their computers when both sides used MODEM. Keith Petersen made a minor update to always turn on "quiet mode", and called the result XMODEM. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: XMODEMA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Network File Server in Dual Tasking Mode using Xmodem ProtocolCited 0 times
- Go sideways: YMODEMA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MEGAlinkA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
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đź”— Related topics
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