18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
3:35 p.m.
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
no, I didn't misunderstand. perhaps it was the
last one Einar had. But it was what he created Email on.
Check the Wiki for him.
You've been sold a bill of goods. Einar didn't "create email", and
certainly not on a Sun workstation. Internet email was created in 1971
by Ray Tomlinson:
http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
Sum Microsystems wasn't even *founded* until 1982, so there's no way
that a Sun product was involved in the original creation of email.
Eric