[e2e] Nature mag, DARPA, and the Internet

J. Noel Chiappa jnc at ginger.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Aug 9 13:43:34 PDT 2003


    > From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>

    >> No, email originated under Multics and then at BBN

    > I do not recall Multics inventing any email services

I think perhaps people are saying Multics when they mean CTSS; CTSS had one of
the first intra-computer email systems. See:

    http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html

for some details of CTSS mail.

	Noel




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