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From: zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C. Zaft)
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Subject: Re: Telecom Acronyms
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Robert Woodhead writes:

>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.

Actually PLATO is still somewhat alive-and-well; CDC sold it to The
Roach Organization (TRO).  Meanwhile, UIUC has come up with the
successor to PLATO, NovaNET.  NovaNET combines the features of PLATO
with lowered cost due to satellite distribution of host-to-terminal
data.


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