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wrote about history of MH and nmh
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:05:54 +0100 |
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| 653 | 653 |
| 654 | 654 |
| 655 | 655 |
| 656 .NH 1 | 656 .NH 1 |
| 657 Case study: nmh | 657 Case study: nmh |
| 658 | 658 .LP |
| 659 .NH 2 | 659 The last chapter introduced and explained the Unix Philosophy |
| 660 History | 660 from a general point of view. |
| 661 .LP | 661 The driving force were the guidelines and references to |
| 662 MH, nmh. | 662 existing software were given only sparsely. |
| 663 They are old. | 663 In this and the next chapter, concrete software will be |
| 664 the driving force in the discussion. | |
| 665 .PP | |
| 666 This first case study is about the mail user agents \s-1MH\s0 | |
| 667 (``mail handler'') and its descendent \fInmh\fP (``new mail handler''). | |
| 668 | |
| 669 | |
| 670 .NH 2 | |
| 671 History of \s-1MH\s0 | |
| 672 .LP | |
| 673 In 1977, Stockton Gaines and Norman Shapiro of the \s-1RAND\s0 Corporation | |
| 674 came up with a concept for a new electronic mail system. | |
| 675 Till then, \s-1RAND\s0 had used \s-1MS\s0 (``mail system''), | |
| 676 which was monolithic. | |
| 677 In 1978 and 1989, Bruce Borden implemented the concept \(en | |
| 678 this was the birth of \s-1MH\s0. | |
| 679 .PP | |
| 680 Since then, \s-1RAND\s0, the University of California at Irvine and | |
| 681 at Berkeley, and several others have contributet to the software. | |
| 682 However, it's core concepts remained the same. | |
| 683 In the 90s, the development of \s-1MH\s0 slowed down. | |
| 684 Richard Coleman started with \fInmh\fP, the new mail handler, | |
| 685 in 1997 to improve \s-1MH\s0, especially in regard of modern emailing. | |
| 686 Today, nmh is developed by various people on the internet. | |
| 687 .[ | |
| 688 %T RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes | |
| 689 %A Willis H. Ware | |
| 690 %D 2008 | |
| 691 %I The RAND Corporation | |
| 692 %P 128\(en137 | |
| 693 %O .CW \s-1http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP537/ | |
| 694 .] | |
| 695 .[ | |
| 696 %T MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers | |
| 697 %A Jerry Peek | |
| 698 %D 1991, 1992, 1995 | |
| 699 %I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. | |
| 700 %P Appendix B | |
| 701 %O Also available online: \f(CW\s-2http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/\fP | |
| 702 .] | |
| 664 | 703 |
| 665 .NH 2 | 704 .NH 2 |
| 666 Contrasts to similar sw | 705 Contrasts to similar sw |
| 667 .LP | 706 .LP |
| 668 vs. Thunderbird, mutt, mailx, pine | 707 vs. Thunderbird, mutt, mailx, pine |