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To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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Subject: Re: email vs. e-mail, was Re: cvs commit:src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c
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Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:32 AM +0100 2002/05/24, Tony Finch wrote:
> >  1982 Computerworld 5 July 68 ADR/Email is reportedly easy to use and
> >  features simple, English verbs and prompt screens.
> 
>         It would be interesting to go back to the people who helped
> develop the very first e-mail systems and ask them what they used at
> the time, and see if we can find any prior references.

Contact:	greg@censoft.com

He wrote some of the first email software every written, as an
undergraduate at UCSD.  Greg was my boss at my first "real job"
after college.  Among other things, we shipped the very first
shrink-wrapped application software for UNIX.

-- Terry

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