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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Bus Standards
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 03:05:00 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Message-ID: <1i89gsINN26a@uwm.edu>
- References: <1992Dec20.221240.10565@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <C0AJGp.7E8@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <C0AJGp.7E8@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >Still more exciting is Just In Time learning With JITL, when the
- >secreatry wants to learn to do a mail merge, she hits the help, mail
- >merge button and a movie comes on the screen explaining it to her
- >through examples.
-
- On the Amiga, system support exists for hypertext files. A simple
- program could also add invisible support for ANIMs, which would both
- be handled by the same system of datatypes.
-
- It's not impossible on the Amiga. In fact, due to advancements in the
- OS design of the Amiga, such an addition could actually be a
- smoothly-integrated counterpart to the AmigaGuide format.
-
- >Television isn't interactive. If what is on the screen is boring, and
- >the delivery mechanism is boring, you won't learn. Conversely, if the
- >topic is dull (i.e. platipuses) but the medium is interesting (games
- >and puzzles) then people learn.
-
- Who are you to call the duck-billed platypus boring? Mankind finds
- the one piece of evidence that supports God being born a crack baby,
- and you write it off as "boring". :)
-
- Ah well. Just wanted to interject a little humor. Sorry.
-
- Greg
-
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