[ih] EMISARI

[Alan Clegg]

Interesting article... and interesting "IRC History" that doesn't even
mention RELAY on BITNET.  *sigh*

On 10/1/17 4:32 PM, Marc Handelman wrote:
> Joly,
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> EMISARI was  mainframe based (corroborated here:
> https://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm ).
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> Marc Handelman
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> us.m.h at ieee.org
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> *From: *<internet-history-bounces at postel.org> on behalf of Joly MacFie
> <joly at punkcast.com>
> *Reply-To: *<joly at punkcast.com>
> *Date: *Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 11:38
> *To: *"internet-history at postel.org" <internet-history at postel.org>
> *Subject: *[ih] EMISARI
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> ​Listening to PBS yesterday, there was an interveiew about the history
> of FEMA, and they mentioned EMISARI as being the Ur of chat software. I
> had heard of PLATO and EIES, but never EMISARI.
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> I googled and found 1) a related story in Wired
> - https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-history-of-fema/ and 2) this
> book excerpt http://bit.ly/2fIe8Qw
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> Questions: Packet-based? Relied on a central server? Any further insights?
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> ​It would seem Murray Turoff deserves wider recognition.
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> ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Turoff
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