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Article #1112Re: (Re:)^50 Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
From: h.cohen
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 17:19
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 17:19
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The Bell Labs study mentioned here was by Tom Landauer et al. They taught a subset of ed to non-computer types with the existing command names, irrelevant command names, and (I'm not sure about this last) counter-intuitive command names. Note that the ed commands *were not changed*. Different names were associated with the *same* one-letter mnemonics (s, a, ...). Results suggested that the word associated with a one-letter command was not important. This generates some interesting hypotheses a propos the current discussion, but generalization of the results obviously requires some caution. Harvey S. Cohen, AT&T-ISL, Lincroft, NJ, mtuxo!hsc
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!hsc From: hsc@mtuxo.UUCP (h.cohen) Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix Subject: Re: (Re:)^50 Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing Message-ID: <2001@mtuxo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 13:19:03 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxo.2001 Posted: Thu Sep 25 13:19:03 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 01:58:22 EDT References: <1413@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 11