Ohhh frontpage. Wonderful product that taught people positioning with no break spaces.
I made good money cleaning all that shit up when people thought they could do a website and painted themselves into a corner. And I wasn't even a web designer. More like a programmer. Though that whole qualification (web designer) was still emerging in those days.
In Holland we used to call frontpage 'strontpage', stront meaning shit. Pretty apt name for the quality of content it produced.
Of course then came Dreamweaver which was what it says on the tin, a dream to work with. With great CSS support. Until adobe took it over and made it subscription crap it was a really nice product. Macromedia was pretty great except for flash.
Adobe, another one of those "buy and squeeze the juice out until it dies" companies.
I can't really see an easy way to allow good companies to flourish, and ones which are malign in this way to not, but companies like Adobe, Broadcom, Oracle need to just be destroyed.
I guess this is for DOS only systems? I used elm on BSD/386 in the 80s, and honestly was a little surprised to learn it's still being maintained by Kari Hurtta. And then I was thinking, Pegasus can't be older than Pine, Alpine or Mutt, can it? But yes, it is. You learn something new every day.
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Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988047 - Aug 2023 (92 comments)
Pegasus Mail Newsflashes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413891 - May 2022 (3 comments)
Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975087 - Jan 2020 (46 comments)
Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144731 - April 2017 (49 comments)
Pegasus Mail: Twenty years and counting... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115730 - Jan 2011 (12 comments)
I've never been a businessman - https://www.golem.de/news/interview-with-david-harris-i-ve-n...
[1] For 30 years Pegasus Mail has been the project of a single programmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25526517 - Dec 2020 (0 comments)
I still use it occasionally even now when I want to decode attachments from emails that I only have the plain text of.
We also ran Mercury Mail server for a few years as well. The software always felt like it was a labour of love from the author.
https://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm
I made good money cleaning all that shit up when people thought they could do a website and painted themselves into a corner. And I wasn't even a web designer. More like a programmer. Though that whole qualification (web designer) was still emerging in those days.
In Holland we used to call frontpage 'strontpage', stront meaning shit. Pretty apt name for the quality of content it produced.
Of course then came Dreamweaver which was what it says on the tin, a dream to work with. With great CSS support. Until adobe took it over and made it subscription crap it was a really nice product. Macromedia was pretty great except for flash.
I can't really see an easy way to allow good companies to flourish, and ones which are malign in this way to not, but companies like Adobe, Broadcom, Oracle need to just be destroyed.
No.
The Pegasus client is a Win32 app and in my minimal testing also works on WINE on Linux.
I haven't tried the Mercury email server but it's Win32 as well.