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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Alpine, was: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:02:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220712220255.ME587%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic2GZg6S+WVzVGx89Hn5qzkyFBuYGbieA_A20Tv9H06knQ@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Thornton wrote in
 <CAP2nic2GZg6S+WVzVGx89Hn5qzkyFBuYGbieA_A20Tv9H06knQ@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM Michael Kjörling <michael@kjorling.se>
 |wrote:
 |> On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
 |>>> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
 |>>
 |>> Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a
 |> well-known
 |>> MUA (the one I'm using now)?
 |> If Wikipedia is to be believed, the MUA came later.
 |> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux> "Initial release August \
 |> 2005"
 |> as compared to
 |> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)> "Initial release
 |> December 20, 2007"
 |
 |Yeah well where do those file compression Johnny-come-latelies get off on
 |stealing the name of an Infocom-format Z-machine interpreter?

I "always" thought of it as a "You can call me Al" extension, or
better continuation, of the Pine mailer with the Pico editor (that
i liked), which are much, much older.
(TonyPine would have been an alternative: "Fix it again Tony".)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08  7:40 [COFF] " Tomasz Rola
2022-07-08 10:26 ` [COFF] " Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-09  0:29   ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-09  1:52     ` Angel M Alganza
2022-07-09  8:35       ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-09  8:59         ` Angel M Alganza
2022-07-10 21:39         ` Chris Hanson
2022-07-11 14:11           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-07-11 21:04     ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-11 23:01       ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-12  7:58         ` [COFF] Re: Alpine, was: " Michael Kjörling
2022-07-12 15:34           ` Adam Thornton
2022-07-12 22:02             ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2022-07-12 23:34           ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-13  7:36             ` [COFF] Re: Alpine Michael Kjörling
2022-07-12 15:56       ` [COFF] Re: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2022-07-12 19:48         ` Lars Brinkhoff

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