[ih] Eric Allman giving a public talk on the history of email

[Brian Carpenter]

More likely influenced by IBM RSCS at that date, perhaps? iirc, RSCS was
the basis of BITNET email.

Regards,
    Brian Carpenter
    (via tiny screen & keyboard)

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 21:16 Karl Auerbach via Internet-history, <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> A long time ago, 1980/1981, before sendmail, I was at Interactive
> Systems in Santa Monica.
>
> Brian X (forgot his last name) and I came up with a system we called
> "queued ftp" - it was a store-and-forward system for file images, with
> delivery to a program.   It kinda resembled what would be a system of
> sendmail relays.
>
> (I can't remember whether we were influenced by IBM's SNADS or whether
> that came later.)
>
> We used our QFTP system as the engine underneath the email system we
> built, as well as for things like remote printing.
>
> I gave a paper on this stuff at either USENIX or Unix Users Group at the
> old Jack Tarr hotel in San Francisco around 1980/81.  Eric A. chaired
> the session.
>
> I'm not saying that the work that Brian X and I did at Interactive had
> any influence on sendmail, but I like to think we did.
>
> By-the-way, we built this on PDP/11 Unix systems using Z80 based Unibus
> cards ("UMC cards) from ACC in Santa Barbara.
>
>      --karl--
>
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