12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
10:59 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
This got me thinking. I can make a really good
argument (at some point,
not now, no time) that e-mail could never have gotten as big (universal,
nearly ubiquitous, one common standard) as it did without the modern
(1990+) Internet,
Abolutely agree.
which could not have gotten where it is today with
Linux.
Absolutely disagree :-) I have no holy axes to grind, but linux
came along too late to affect much of the pre CO/RE (1994 or so,
commercial/research) split foundational work (where the little
unixes thrived) and too small in numbers to have set conventional
standards since then.