Layering on top of Ethernet UDP done. When several clusters serve the same local network, they may bid among themselves to serve a new client PC when asks to establish a new session. The Login program allows the user to establish and shut down a Hermit session. The standard disk device driver is replaced by a Hermit disk driver, which fetches and updates disk sectors over the communication medium, transparently to the system or application. Virtual terminal program makes a connection with the Telnet server on the cluster level, which in turn makes a virtual terminal connection with the specified host computer.
Performance is unavoidably jerky.
The user interface to CLIO network service. Simple programs that send requests to the cluster and display the answers on the screen. MS-DOS Hermit service currently running and being debugged as standalone monolithic application. Cluster interaction with DEC-20 file server complete. Cluster disk service for MS-DOS is complete.