>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > But, I'll ask anyway: did you really intend to suggest that Sendmail
> > was originally written for Windows NT over twenty years ago?
>
>My intent was to point out how it is unlike most other Unix programs.
>For example, there's lpr, lpd, and lpq. Sendmail folds all those
>concepts into one program.
Ah. Yes. Wish I'd listened to that "annoying" guy in Tech Pubs back in
early 1978, when he kept going on and on about this wonderful system
with things like "shells", "pipes", and so on. I had my hands full
wrapping my head around PRIMOS, after being used to TOPS-10, ITS, etc.
(Then again, having been partially exposed to Pr1me's efforts to "port"
UNIX to its hardware, I have fewer illusions about the so-called
"portability" of UNIX than most adherents. Though, IIRC, most of the
real problems were in the piles of C code that assumed every system
was a VAX....)
tq vm, (burley)
