Talk:I. P. Sharp Associates
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[edit] 666 mailbox
On IPSANET, the software is called 666 BOX. Which was it officially called ? John Vandenberg 07:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
It's called 666 box, the name of the workspace to be loaded. There was another workspace called 666 mailbox which provided a full-screen (3270) interface to the same underlying e-mail facility. Roger Hui 21:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Officially it was called "mailbox"..
One has to know that APL was not a system where people used some sort of personal moniker to "login", but rather "singed in" using an account number. The lower account numbers were reserved for the system and the higher for users.
The original mailbox system, which only supported a 3 character Email addresses, was written by Larry Breed and available on APL/360 systems in the late '60's. A young hackers compromised that system and it's new author presented it as "666 mailbox".
To this date I have yet to hear of an Email system before Larry's original work in the '60s. [Kevin Harrell]
