[Gllug] OT: unix on windows

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 15 12:57:20 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 12:29 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:29:44PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Back in the day, http://www.postmaster.co.uk/ was written in Notes (!)
> and had 100,000 users or thereabouts.  Each user had their own
> "database" (I use the term advisedly - a username.nsf file, anyway).
> Making even minor changes to the application required each file to be
> visited, which took a couple of weeks.
> 

I first started using Notes more than a decade ago and it was pretty
fantastic for the time. If you had a team in the field using modems a
combined email/database replication system was just brilliant.

Sadly, though, it seems to have stood still while the rest of us have
moved on.

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