Saludo ako sa iyo Doc Mana. Tama yang move ninyo.
Ibaun ang Micro$oft!!!!! hehehe :-P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pablo Manalastas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [plug] Microsoft and Email
>
>
>
> I am editing a computer textbook series which is currently being
> written by various authors (The textbooks are for grade
> school and high
> school). One grade school author said,
>
> "It was around 1994 when email was introduced, through the efforts
> of companies such as <b>Bill Gates' Microsoft</b> and
> <b>Netscape</b>".
>
> And here is my reaction:
>
> ======== Start of reaction ======
> ... I have to correct the above misconception -- not to put
> down <author>, but to straighten the facts for everyone.
>
> Here are the facts:
>
> The Unix operating system was written at AT&T System Labs in the late
> 60s (1965+) by the group of Kernighan, Pike, and Ritchie.
> The University of California at Berkeley was given a copy of the Unix
> source code, at which Bill Joy (not Bill Gates), then a young
> faculty at Berkeley, happily hacked away. Bill Joy's group introduced
> many enhancements to Unix and came out with a version of Unix called
> BSD, the Berkeley System Distribution. The Department of Defense (of
> the U.S.) liked BSD so much that they commissioned Bill Joy's group
> to work on the BSD networking features. TCP/IP networking
> was then added
> to BSD and the Internet was born (early 70s). Shortly afterwards, a
> graduate student, Eric Allman, wrote the mail transport agent
> (a program
> running over TCP/IP) called Sendmail, and e-mail was born. In all of
> these activities, Microsoft did not play a part -- it was not even
> born yet.
>
> In the middle 80s, IBM bought into Intel, and IBM had an oversupply
> of Intel 8088 chips, which IBM made into the IBM/PC. They
> commissioned
> Bill Gates, a computer-hacker/college-drop-out/young-millionaire, who
> earned his first million selling "Microsoft CP/M cards" and
> "AppleBasic"
> to Apple II personal computer users, to write an operating system for
> the IBM/PC, and PC/DOS was born. Bill Gates knew that PC/DOS was
> not friendly enough, since it did not have the graphical user
> interface
> (GUI) that the new MacIntosh Apples had, and so he hired
> people to write
> Microsoft Windows, which combined the functionality of PC/DOS and the
> friendliness of the MacIntosh GUI. At that time, Windows
> (version 3.0)
> did not even have networking, because Bill Gates has not yet realized
> that the Internet existed!
>
> To cut the long story short, <b>Microsoft did not introduce
> e-mail</b>.
> Today, its contributions to the e-mail community are: (1)
> Microsoft Exchange,
> a mail transport agent which can not beat Sendmail because the latter
> has been around for so long and has been used by so many that most of
> its bugs have been cleaned out. (2) Microsoft Outlook, an integrated
> mail reader which is reasonably good.
>
> ==== End of reaction ====
>
> PMana
>
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