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From: root@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Humans considered as computing machines [was: Portable Unix boxes]
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Date: 19 Mar 90 17:47:13 GMT
References: <3296@trantor.harris-atd.com> <3944@uceng.UC.EDU> <1079@athen.sinix.UUCP>
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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."