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MS in 2005 as well.

• Sirened 4y ago
  And Apple in 1991 [1]. It's a very fun story actually, good read if you're in the business of writing "reliable" or "recoverable" software (aka pretty much everyone). A bad design choice in sendmail caused a cascading explosion of emails. I also highly recommend reading the rest of the book (?), the Unix Hater's Handbook is a wonderful bit of history and discussion of the design issues of the NIXs we all know and love/hate today. [1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf page 85
  • idontpost 4y ago
    "Bad design choice" described basically every design choice involved in email.
• rstupek 4y ago
  Compaq in the mid 90s on banyan vines a friend leaving the company sent a company wide email listing his house. It wasn't supposed to be possible to email *