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Para-Mail from Paradox Development Corporation was the first email package to be brought into Novell and MHS. Paradox Development Corporation introduced Para-Mail version 2.0 with Novell at Comdex 1986.
- ↑ "MHS: Correct Addressing format to DaVinci Email via MHS". Microsoft Support Knowledge Base. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
- ↑ "...offers improved performance, greater reliability and much more flexibility in everything from communications hardware to scheduling..." Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine , 03/07/94, Mark Gibbs, Network World