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From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
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Subject: Re: Telecom Acronyms
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U5434122@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:

>Telephone operators-turned-philosophers can turn to PLATO (programmed
>evaluation review technique).

Hmm.  Mayhaps they should be more PERT.  PLATO is "Programmed Learning
for Automated Teaching Operations," created in the early '70s at the
University of Illinois at Urbana (future home of HAL), marketed into
an early semi-grave by CDC, but well remembered as having some of the
all-time best multiplayer games ever written.


Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc.  !uunet!biar!trebor trebor@biar.UUCP