Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-26 Thread Uwe Wuerdinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Sendmail was written for NT 0.01 pre-beta in 1979. It was ported to UNIX by Bill Gates in 1981. Okay, so it *was* intended to be a joke. It didn't work for me, because I have this notion (not sure how valid) that NT is supposed to be somebody's effort to

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-26 Thread Yiorgos Adamopoulos
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 01:14:27AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the person came out of Digital, perhaps an ex-VMS engineer, and I know I have his name somewhere in my archives of Internet memorabilia somewhere). Dave Cutler

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-26 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:07:02PM +0200, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 01:14:27AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the person came out of Digital, perhaps an ex-VMS engineer, and I know I have his name somewhere in my archives of Internet memorabilia somewhere). Dave

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-26 Thread Julian L.C. Brown
At 01:14 AM 3/26/99 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Sendmail was written for NT 0.01 pre-beta in 1979. It was ported to UNIX by Bill Gates in 1981. Okay, so it *was* intended to be a joke. It didn't work for me, because I have this notion (not sure how valid) that NT is supposed to be

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-26 Thread craig
Well it was funny, till you went and over-analyzed it.. Put down your linux book for a few and RELAX. You assume too much. I was actually reading books on the new OS I'm learning about -- M'jovy. tq vm, (burley) P.S. It isn't over-analysis on the part of the "client" that is solely

Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by Adam D. McKenna (and some other folks) at 07:31 PM 3/25/99 -0500: Sendmail is not a Unix program. It is an NT program that someone ported to Unix twenty years ago. Hmm...I can't quite see the humor in this, though it strikes me as a bit funny, and not entirely untrue.

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread craig
Yes. Sendmail was written for NT 0.01 pre-beta in 1979. It was ported to UNIX by Bill Gates in 1981. Okay, so it *was* intended to be a joke. It didn't work for me, because I have this notion (not sure how valid) that NT is supposed to be somebody's effort to create for Microsoft an OS along

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread vogelke
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:58:58 -0800, Kai MacTane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: K "Bill Gates? Isn't he the guy who invented the Internet, back in 1995?" Nah, that was Al Gore. K shudder Ditto. -- Karl Vogel ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread Scott D. Yelich
K "Bill Gates? Isn't he the guy who invented the Internet, back in 1995?" Nah, that was Al Gore. Oh, ya'll want me to rant about mickeysoft? just give the word... Scott

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread Adam D. McKenna
From: Kai MacTane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text written by Adam D. McKenna (and some other folks) at 07:31 PM 3/25/99 -0500: Sendmail is not a Unix program. It is an NT program that someone ported to Unix twenty years ago. Hmm...I can't quite see the humor in this, though it strikes me as

Re: Sendmail for NT

1999-03-25 Thread Joel Shellman
"Adam D. McKenna" wrote: From: Kai MacTane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, MS' various departments and spokesthings have foisted nonsense of a similar level of ludicrousness on the public too many times. They say, in their deadpan way, "NT is at least as robust and scalable as Linux",