12 May
2010
12 May
'10
11:58 a.m.
From: Dan Gahlinger
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:02 PM
you know, you trolls have to find better ways to take
things out of
context, this is pretty lame.
PCKBF at 11.
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).
The SUN workstation was not created until the early 1980s, conceived as
a 3M (1 million bytes of memory, 1 million instructions per second, 1
million pixels on the screen) device by Ralph Gorin of Stanford
University. (Remember that "SUN" originated as "Stanford University
Network". Andy Bechtolsheim worked for Ralph when he built the first
SUN workstation.) The earliest write-up I have in my collection is dated
1981.
Rich