"first" computer on the internet

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Fri Jul 18 17:11:11 CDT 2008


On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> It's also the system where E-Mail was first created.
> It's a Sun SLC workstation, owned by Einar Steffard.

There doesn't seem to be ANY mentions anywhere of an Einar Steffard.

Can we assume that you are talking about Einar Stefferud?
(He did do some important work, but didn't "create E-Mail". (I wrote a
program named EMAIL.COM; does that mean that _I_ created EMAIL?))


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com
(computers since mid-1960's; no significant contribution until 1984)


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