i18n@... wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > Doug Ewell wrote:
> > >
> > > Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's an "email client"?
> > >
> > > Geez, folks. No matter how you feel about Peter, it would have been
> > > much less work just to answer the question.
> > >
> > > An e-mail client is the program you use to send, receive, manage, and
> > > (usually) compose e-mail messages.
> > >
> > > It is distinct from the "servers" which do the heavy work of passing
> > > messages along the network.
> >
> > Why isn't it my email program or my email application?
>
> Do you mean is your email program or email application the same as your
> email client? If so, the answer is they are synonyms for the same
> thing.The email serve is the place where your inbound email resides
> until (and sometimes after) you download it to your client. The serve is
> also responsible for sending mail to other servers, receiving mail from
> other servers, and for handling requests from clients to download or
> otherwise view mail.
>
> >
> > What's the metaphor by which an email program becomes a "client"?
>
> The same metaphor by which your browser is a client to web servers you
> care to access. And if you use an FTP program, it is a client in the
> same way to an ftp server. A large part of the internet (some might
> argue the whole thing) is based on a client-server architecture. Perhaps
> in the 80s you heard of "client-server architecture" being bandied about
> in computer circles? Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't matter. Type any
> of these terms or questions into a search engine and you will find the
> answers waiting for you, and surely someone will have written it up in
> precisely the level of detail you require.
>
> Are you taking an interest in computers now? I think it would be great
> if you did. But this list might not be the best place to get these types
> of elementary lessons, so please don't be put off if the ongoing and
> repeated advice is to review someplace else where the purpose of the
> destination is to answer elementary computer and vocabulary questions.
> That would be very good advice indeed!

No, I'm no asking any questions about computers; I'm asking questions
about language.

As for the 80s, what I heard about computers was what Miguel Civil told
us about when he rolled his TRS kit-computer and the Selectric it was
hooked up to into the Assyrian Dictionary office to show us how he was
trying to create a Sumerian database. In 1984 I got a Kaypro 4/84 --
just weeks before Apple announced their Universities program, through
which many Chicago people got their first Macs. But I went to DOS for my
first upgrade.

In the 70s I had one quarter of COMIT II with Vic Yngve, and wrote some
programs that actually became part of linguistic research -- I. J.
Gelb's *Compute-Aided Analysis of Amorite*, and Eric Hamp's
investigation of Breton dialects.

In the early 90s, when if WWS was going to get published, I'd have to do
it myself, I switched to Mac, because DOS/Windows in those days could
not deal with fonts or graphics.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...