re Software disenchantment

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Jim Thompson <jim () netgate com>
> Date: September 29, 2018 at 11:07:20 AM GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] re Software disenchantment
>
>
>
> > On Sep 28, 2018, at 4:51 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Does no one use predictive texting? Autocorrect?
>
> We had predictive text completion and auto-correct (spelling) in the editorial system at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper 
> in 1986.  The system (which supported a two dozen reporters / editors on VT-320 terminals with a rudimentary “window 
> system”) ran on a pair of Sun-3/160 “workstations” with far fewer combined resources (4MB of slow RAM in each, 
> 500-ish MB disk drives, 10Mbps Ethernet) than any “smartphone”.
>
> Jim



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