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Article #3518Re: Humans considered as computing machines [was: Portable Unix boxes]
From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 17:47
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 17:47
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In article <1079@athen.sinix.UUCP>, es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes: > >Not only do I read at 9600 baud, I used to spell check at 9600 baud. I : Without any showyness intended, I can back that at least to a certain amount. : With some training, you can get used to read lines, even paragraphs as a whole : (similarly as every adult reader reads words, not letters), thus highly in- : creasing your reading speed. Reading a book that way, it's well possible to : read 2 pages within 3 seconds (2000 cps or 16000 baud - no stop or parity). : : But, there is one important condition: the text m u s t n o t require any : intellectual effort of comprehension. Comprehension was relative. I comprehended general sentence structure amid the typesetting markups, but didn't really remember content. I wasn't examining the content of the text, just the text. Why I answered this with my reply was a comment I was told several years ago from the computer services people. "Why do you want to go faster than 300 baud? Nobody can read that fast."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!galaxy.rutgers.edu!argus!root From: root@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: comp.arch,sci.psychology Subject: Re: Humans considered as computing machines [was: Portable Unix boxes] Message-ID: <1632@argus.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 90 17:47:13 GMT References: <3296@trantor.harris-atd.com> <3944@uceng.UC.EDU> <1079@athen.sinix.UUCP> Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project Lines: 17