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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
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In article <15381@cup.portal.com>, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com says:
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>     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.