20 Jul
2008
20 Jul
'08
10:25 a.m.
On Jul 20, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
The Sum workstation you described may indeed have been
the first to
do something interesting, but cannot possibly have been the first
to send Internet email as you apparently claimed.
This was about a SPARCstation-SLC, right? The SLC was introduced
in May of 1990. I was by no means a "very early Internet user" (by
tech geek standards, not general public standards), but even I had
been exchanging email regularly for years before this. Good grief.
The assertion that a SPARCstation-SLC (or any SPARCstation, or any
Sun system at all for that matter) was involved in the "creation of
email" is nothing short of absurd. It's right up there with the
"Microsoft created the Internet" crap that I hear from clueless
people all the time. The one thing that bothers me the most about
this is that this assertion will now be archived on the WWW, which
someone might run across via a search engine, and the absurdity will
be propagated.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL