12 May
2010
12 May
'10
12:34 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated:
From: Dan Gahlinger
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:02 PM
To be charitable to Dan, perhaps he's talking about sendmail, which was
written in 1981, althought the only person that can definitively state one
way or the other is Allman.
-spc (And I could see a tape labeled OS/2 without having anything to do
with IBM's OS/2---perhaps it's the OS tape #2 of 2 ... )
and about the sun workstation, the guy that wrote
the first email
protocol did it on that station, or at least finished it there. You
can ask him yourself, but he doesn't respond to twits.
More time travel. The first e-mail protocol was a specialization of
FTP, adopted while the entirety of the file transfer protocol was in
development (see, for example, RFC 463, February 1973, bottom of page 2).