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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Laurel, which ran on the Xerox Alto at PARC, was the first email GUI client and had most of the features we still use today. And yes, the successor of Laurel was called Hardy.

This is the Laurel manual:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-81-6_Laurel_Manual_198105.pdf

#email #retrocomputing #xerox

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Joe Pasqua
@bitsplusatoms@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span amoroso And by the way, the Mail program that ran in the Xerox Development Environment on D-machines (a relative of Hardy) was the model for the original NeXT Mail* which was the basis for macOS mail. There is a long lineage here.

* Bryan Yamamoto was the link between the two

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span bitsplusatoms Lafite was the Interlisp email client inspired by Laurel.
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Space Hobo
@spacehobo@teh.entar.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span amoroso GUI mail client named `yanny` when?
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