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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:34:00 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Michele Jackson <mjackson@MAILER.FSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: <CM> Beginnings of E-mail
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Philip Enslow wrote:
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>The first system designed specifically for email was probably the EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System) by Murray Turoff at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 70s. There was also a system in Canada that may have been operational before EIES.
EIES used a time-sharing system, and was built on a shared space metaphor. So if you're interested in email, as made possible by packet switching, EIES doesn't fit. Neither does PLANET, which (I'm pretty sure) used similar architecture. Mr Enslow might be referring to Bellcore in Canada, which also had an early system, but I'm not familiar with its architecture.
Before ARPANET was used much for email (I don't know the first instance), there were time-sharing systems used for communication. Turoff, for example, designed DELPHI while at the Office for Emergency Preparedness in the mid-60s.
Michele Jackson
Florida State U
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Subject: Re: <CM> Beginnings of E-mail
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Philip Enslow wrote:
[stuff deleted]
>
>The first system designed specifically for email was probably the EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System) by Murray Turoff at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 70s. There was also a system in Canada that may have been operational before EIES.
EIES used a time-sharing system, and was built on a shared space metaphor. So if you're interested in email, as made possible by packet switching, EIES doesn't fit. Neither does PLANET, which (I'm pretty sure) used similar architecture. Mr Enslow might be referring to Bellcore in Canada, which also had an early system, but I'm not familiar with its architecture.
Before ARPANET was used much for email (I don't know the first instance), there were time-sharing systems used for communication. Turoff, for example, designed DELPHI while at the Office for Emergency Preparedness in the mid-60s.
Michele Jackson
Florida State U
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