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Article #11697Re: Half-baked Ideas, New Projects
From: Lee Sailer
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1989 15:44
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1989 15:44
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In article <15381@cup.portal.com>, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com says: > > Remember speed-writing? The alternative to cryptic shorthand languages? > > Well, why not implement a form of speed-writing within a word-processor? >you could have a dictionary of short forms of words similar to speed-writing >abbreviations which would be then parsed out, either: This was done rather well back in the early 70s for mainframes. I believe the creator's name was Stuart Lamb, who was a Berkeley or Stanford linguist. I saw it demoed, and it worked great. It never caught on I guess, perhaps because tho it is a good technical hack, it turned out to be useless to 99% of the typing world.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Half-baked Ideas, New Projects Message-ID: <74421UH2@PSUVM> Date: 6 Mar 89 15:44:06 GMT References: <10642@well.UUCP> <15381@cup.portal.com> Organization: Penn State Erie, Behrend College Lines: 12