Skip to content

Comment on News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)

Comments

Mark and his team at UW wrote pine and alpine, the mail client used by many (most?) US college students in the late 1990s.

They also wrote pico, the pine composer, predecessor of nano, and the most newbie-user-friendly text editor commonly found on Unix text console systems.

And which strongly influenced mutt, which many of us moved on to. I also used pine back in the day.

Godspeed, Mark.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.