Paolo AmorosoThe history of Lotus Notes and the influence of PLATO. A journey through long forgotten software genres and product categories.
Human after all@amoroso we had a notes database of software, manuals, drivers and documents called Genie that was based on the then IBM owned Lotus notes, database replication was the main issue back then
@humanhorseshoes Was replication unreliable?
Russell Davis@amoroso one of my favourite non-fiction computer history books is The Friendly Orange Glow about the rise and fall of PLATO and what could have been.
I caught the tail end of the PLATO era via a TI99/4A in a store in Leicester
@ukscone I read the book, really great.
This is kind of strange to me that people who never worked with a given software (author admits it) write articles about it.
At the time of Lotus Notes 4.6 it was much more performant and easy to maintain than Exchange.
I knew many big international companies that relied on Notes. Long after Exchange took the world people were still saying "I will send you a Note".
@as400 I used it only as a user.