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- From: gregt+@CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: GS+AFP Unix server
- Message-ID: <ofN=h3S00WB5M7ZZBN@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:17:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.ofN=h3S00WB5M7ZZBN
- References: <1993Jan21.145729.24786@slab.slip.uiuc.edu> <C19M06.Br6@utstat.toronto.edu> <1jr3i9INN16d@gap.caltech.edu>
- <C1EDDE.H42@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 38
- In-Reply-To: <C1EDDE.H42@utstat.toronto.edu>
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- philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- > It is not irrelevant. Getting a good mail system is a joy and rare. That's
- > why the NeXT is so nice to use, and why using Unix based editors for mail and
- > news is a pain (which is why you saw a long line-> due to vi on an Iris
- > running Unix and on the Internet). You can't imagine how far behind Unix mail
- > systems are when it comes to doing anything easy, interesting, etc...In
- > principle TCP/IP may have nothing to do with it. In practice, everything
- > surrounding Unix (and as a consequence anything (TCP)/IP based) is political.
-
- Hmm. I've gotta respond to this. You can't imagine how advanced
- Unix mail systems are when it comes to doing anything easy,
- interesting, etc... The Andrew Message System (AMS. I'm usin' it
- right now) is waaaaaay advanced. Basically, a full multimedia mail
- system. It's been in use for at least 4 years here at CMU (where it
- was written). Probably longer than that. The graphical interfaces to
- it are pretty darn decent. You can send text, graphics, animations,
- sounds, hyper-stuff (click-here-and-see-cool-shit kind of stuff).
- It's quite advanced. What else... uuh, footnotes in mail. Heh, you
- can even imbed cool things like clocks (it's x:xx, do you know where
- your brain is?). Just because your site is running the brain dead
- mail crap that comes with the standard Unix installation doesn't mean
- that that's all there is.
-
- Oh well, I guess that's my post for the evening.
-
- Wow. For those of you who knew and/or cared, it wasn't my Zip that
- was crashing my system. It wasn't my RamFAST that was crashing my
- system. It wasn't my motherboard. It was my damn SCSI cable. That
- thing's been giving me problems for a hell of a long time, but I just
- replaced it, so I'm back in business.
-
- Bye now.
-
- -Greg
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