norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)org wrote:
Bill Wohler <wohler(_at_)newt(_dot_)com> writes:
norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)org writes:
Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
(Half a year ago)
I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is the
ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make use of
many of the features of the Unix command line.
Way back when I was working at SRI in the 80's, our entire group,
programmers, scientists, and support staff alike, used MH. Thus
non-programmers could use MH, and that hasn't changed.
But I bet that, like RAND, almost all, if all of your new users were within a
few feet of more experienced users, probably running terminals into a time
shared system -- no new users running a PC in Wichita.
No, I don't think our secretaries were that close to the developers in
skill. None that I knew of had ever written device drivers :-).
AND, there was no MIME.
So you had it a lot easier than contemporary developers.
Norman Shapiro
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