Word: unix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indistinguishable by automatic checks. Please e-mail Harvard Computer Security (security@fas.harvard.edu) and ask them why they haven't followed the lead of many other campuses including Cornell and Brown (which display only a person's address, telephone number and ".plan" file when you finger them) in disabling or altering UNIX commands to protect the privacy of Harvard students. Even if the expectation of privacy in the real world is diminishing every day, let us take a small stand for the antiquated notion that nobody should be able to figure out where you are and when...
...coordinates a broad range ofcomputer-related services, providing computeraccounts for student groups and offering seminarson how to use UNIX accounts and HTML to make Webpages...
...August 1981 and was followed into the market by huge flocks of honking, beeping clones. Microsoft's DOS was one of three official PC operating systems but quickly beat out the other two. DOS was clunky and primitive at a time when the well-dressed computer was wearing UNIX from Bell Labs or (if its tastes ran upscale) some variant of the revolutionary window-menu-mouse system that Xerox had pioneered in the 1970s. But despite (or maybe because of) its stodginess, DOS established itself as the school uniform of computing. It was homely, but everyone needed it. Once again...
...build and market truly great software is to give it away and then enlist the collective talent of the thousands of programmers on the Net who will use it, debug it and ultimately improve and extend it. Case in point? Linux, a hugely popular version of the Unix operating system that is even overtaking Unix in some markets...
IMAP stands for Internet Mail Access Protocol. By using it, people can take advantage of useful features for dealing with e-mail that are not available when using the prevalent Unix e-mail client, Pine, or a POP mail client like Eudora...