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changeset 18:e2240a387a84
wrote about history of MH and nmh
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:05:54 +0100 |
parents | ef67aad148f6 |
children | d8f428cee0d1 |
files | unix-phil.ms |
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--- a/unix-phil.ms Wed Feb 24 10:42:02 2010 +0100 +++ b/unix-phil.ms Wed Feb 24 18:05:54 2010 +0100 @@ -655,12 +655,51 @@ .NH 1 Case study: nmh +.LP +The last chapter introduced and explained the Unix Philosophy +from a general point of view. +The driving force were the guidelines and references to +existing software were given only sparsely. +In this and the next chapter, concrete software will be +the driving force in the discussion. +.PP +This first case study is about the mail user agents \s-1MH\s0 +(``mail handler'') and its descendent \fInmh\fP (``new mail handler''). + .NH 2 -History +History of \s-1MH\s0 .LP -MH, nmh. -They are old. +In 1977, Stockton Gaines and Norman Shapiro of the \s-1RAND\s0 Corporation +came up with a concept for a new electronic mail system. +Till then, \s-1RAND\s0 had used \s-1MS\s0 (``mail system''), +which was monolithic. +In 1978 and 1989, Bruce Borden implemented the concept \(en +this was the birth of \s-1MH\s0. +.PP +Since then, \s-1RAND\s0, the University of California at Irvine and +at Berkeley, and several others have contributet to the software. +However, it's core concepts remained the same. +In the 90s, the development of \s-1MH\s0 slowed down. +Richard Coleman started with \fInmh\fP, the new mail handler, +in 1997 to improve \s-1MH\s0, especially in regard of modern emailing. +Today, nmh is developed by various people on the internet. +.[ +%T RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes +%A Willis H. Ware +%D 2008 +%I The RAND Corporation +%P 128\(en137 +%O .CW \s-1http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP537/ +.] +.[ +%T MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers +%A Jerry Peek +%D 1991, 1992, 1995 +%I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. +%P Appendix B +%O Also available online: \f(CW\s-2http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/\fP +.] .NH 2 Contrasts to similar sw