Not only did my math master’s thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn’t need.
my whole university email server was accessed via telnet.
So everyone used tty for email.
I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did.
There was about a million(trillian?) gui’s people used for icq messaging though.
it might’ve been ssh i can’t really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one.
IIRC don’t think either service was accesible via the internet though.
plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.
Not only did my math master’s thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn’t need.
TIL that plain TeX is a thing.
Chad
my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.
I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui’s people used for icq messaging though.
Wait what? Telnet? I am guessing cybersecurity is not one of the classes available at your school.
it might’ve been ssh i can’t really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC don’t think either service was accesible via the internet though.
plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
Elm or mutt? Say pine and I’ll die
I think it was pine, actually, but it was over 10 years ago so I can’t say for sure.
I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.