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- From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <C0MLM0.9n6@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- X-Aka: Upholder
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Followups-To: poster
- Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- References: <1993Jan8.215548.12496@athena.mit.edu> <C0Lq46.MJ1@jti.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:48:57 GMT
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- richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
-
- >it was an offshoot of the Plato academic environment
- >developed at CDC and the University of Illinois. Like Athena, it had
- >ambitious goals which didn't include "taking over the world". Essentially
- >the point was to revolutionize computer-based teaching, and indeed Athena
- >also took a stab at this. Plato was installed at 15-20 sites around the
- >world before it collapsed like a dinosaur (you needed a $5 million
- >computer to run it), so it did fulfill a moderate sized niche for a
- >while.
-
- The Plato system (now know as 'NovaNet') is still in use at UIUC. It's
- old, outdated, and *REALLY* slow, but they still use it for required
- coursework in some departments and courses.... (as any UIUC engineering
- student about the horors of Physics 107.. quizes, etc all exclusively on
- Novanet.. ick).
-
- Followups to me.
- --
- Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (ASCII mail) THIS IS _NOT_ CCSO'S OPINION!!!
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) If It were, It would've had a
- wi.6580@n7kbt.rain.com (anon) more important name on it. =)
-