<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:42 PM, John Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":103">The virtual card chutes were fun, </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yup! Magic named virtual devices combined with EXEC or REXX were quite a toolbox. </div><div>(That was a much saner way to fake email than the earlier one i did with the System 1022 DB for US DOT.)</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":103">but it's been well documented that<br>
there was email on CTSS in 1965, </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":103">several years before CP-67 existed.<br>
That's the earliest reference to it that I know.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>indeed. (i alluded to that.)</div><div><br></div>My aside musing was just wondering that RJE etc and local email based on what you delightfully call Virtual Card Chutes must somewhere have been combined to create *remote* email prior to BITNET launch in '81. I'm pretty sure IBM CSC had it in '79, but I can't be certain. I'd quickly have added RJE to my EXEC MAIL in '82 if we'd had a second 370 we were *allowed* to talk to. But how much before then? Could it have antedated the BBN/SNDMSG as first (homogeneous systems) *networked* email? There's time enough between CP-67 and '71 for someone to have tried it. RJE was nearly adequate even without CP-67? But no claimants have surfaced in the Email Invention debates? <div>
<br></div><div>Experiments lost to history are exactly so.</div><div><br></div><div>(Of course, the packet-switched community might question the network-ness of a hypothetical small concatenation of RJE phonelines; but the historic First Email is between two TENEX hosts on the same IMP in the same building, also boundary condition in a definition of network.)<br>
<div><br></div><div><div><br>-- <br>Bill<br>@n1vux <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><br>
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