At 01:14 AM 3/26/99 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Yes. Sendmail was written for NT 0.01 pre-beta in 1979. It was ported to
>>UNIX by Bill Gates in 1981.
>
>Okay, so it *was* intended to be a joke. It didn't work for me, because
>I have this notion (not sure how valid) that NT is supposed to be somebody's
>effort to create for Microsoft an OS along the lines of VAX/VMS (I think
>the person came out of Digital, perhaps an ex-VMS engineer, and I know
>I have his name somewhere in my archives of Internet memorabilia somewhere).
>
>So, when I see someone saying "it was written for NT a long time ago",
>I don't see it as obviously funny -- it might just be somebody
>misremembering VAX/VMS as Windows NT.
>
>(It's been explained to me, in private email, that Sendmail was written
>for BSD. I'd always assumed it was originally targeted for some
>variant of UNIX, but was *almost* gullible enough here to be convinced
>it was originally written for VAX/VMS. Which is, I suppose, kind of
>funny anyway.)
>
>>"Bill Gates? Isn't he the guy who invented the Internet, back in 1995?"
>
>No, that was our (US) Vice President, Algore.
Well it was funny, till you went and over-analyzed it.. Put down your linux
book for a few and RELAX.
=)
Regards,
Julian L.C. Brown
DNS Administrator
Interware.Net Inc.
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