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How oh how did these nuclear weapons facilities manage to function in the days before Exchange and Sharepoint?

stackskipton 1y ago
Just like everyone else before invention of Email and Document sharing? However, like every other business, no one is willing to slow down velocity for security reasons so now we are here. Unless you have a fix for "Line must go up", market pressures will always cause this.
- awesome_dude 1y ago
  Um, email was invented, like in the last millenium, well before Microsoft was a thing (only slightly sarky)
  - dlgeek 1y ago
    Microsoft was a thing before email. Microsoft was founded in 1975. The standard for SMTP wasn't published in 1981. Most early predecessors were the late 70s.
    - awesome_dude 1y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email In 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first mail message between two computers on the ARPANET, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the '@' symbol designating the user's system address.[2][3][4][5] Over a series of RFCs, conventions were refined for sending mail messages over the File Transfer Protocol. Several other email networks developed in the 1970s and expanded subsequently. Proprietary electronic mail systems began to emerge in the 1970s and early 1980s. IBM developed a primitive in-house solution for office automation over the period 1970–1972, and replaced it with OFS (Office System), providing mail transfer between individuals, in 1974.
- BeetleB 1y ago
  > market pressures will always cause this. Market pressures dominate nuclear weapons development?
  - stackskipton 1y ago
    Sure, all the “Let’s run government like a business” types. Cut IT budget and outsource to contractors who want maximum profit.
wombatpm 1y ago
Novell or Lotus Notes
- deleted 1y ago
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azernik 1y ago
They paid lots of secretaries lots of money and had a whole department called "the mailroom". No one wants to go back to that.
- mikkupikku 1y ago
  When they're managing nuclear bombs, I think some inefficiency shouldn't be a deal breaker.

Just like everyone else before invention of Email and Document sharing? However, like every other business, no one is willing to slow down velocity for security reasons so now we are here. Unless you have a fix for "Line must go up", market pressures will always cause this.

awesome_dude 1y ago
Um, email was invented, like in the last millenium, well before Microsoft was a thing (only slightly sarky)
- dlgeek 1y ago
  Microsoft was a thing before email. Microsoft was founded in 1975. The standard for SMTP wasn't published in 1981. Most early predecessors were the late 70s.
  - awesome_dude 1y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email In 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first mail message between two computers on the ARPANET, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the '@' symbol designating the user's system address.[2][3][4][5] Over a series of RFCs, conventions were refined for sending mail messages over the File Transfer Protocol. Several other email networks developed in the 1970s and expanded subsequently. Proprietary electronic mail systems began to emerge in the 1970s and early 1980s. IBM developed a primitive in-house solution for office automation over the period 1970–1972, and replaced it with OFS (Office System), providing mail transfer between individuals, in 1974.
BeetleB 1y ago
> market pressures will always cause this. Market pressures dominate nuclear weapons development?
- stackskipton 1y ago
  Sure, all the “Let’s run government like a business” types. Cut IT budget and outsource to contractors who want maximum profit.

wombatpm 1y ago

Novell or Lotus Notes

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azernik 1y ago

They paid lots of secretaries lots of money and had a whole department called "the mailroom". No one wants to go back to that.

mikkupikku 1y ago
When they're managing nuclear bombs, I think some inefficiency shouldn't be a deal breaker.