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Subject: Re: GeeK: RE: human failings question
From: Allen Leibowitz (allenanzen.com)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 10:09:30 CDT

At 10:57 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Wall, Kevin wrote:
> > There was a really bizarre program, "rk -- the reactive
> > keyboard", from the early 1990's, that did prediction
> > of general user typing. It didn't work too well for
> > emacs, but it was some kind of wonder to behold when
> > it started completing your shell commands for you.

FWIW, I used rk for a while at DEC. A "while" being longer than 2 weeks.
For general hacking/sending mail/doinking around in a shell it was annoying
and not as useful as turning on the completion/correction features in a shell
like tcsh.

It was more useful when writing a lot of text.
I could see it being very useful if you did a lot of text work
with technical, domain specific vocabulary (medical, legal, ....)

The new nokia phones have predictive text:
http://www.nokiausa.com/shopnokia1/1,1181,L3Bob25lcy8xLDEwMDMsLEZGLmh0bWwjODIwMA==,00.html

Allen Leibowitz <allenanzen.com> http://www.anzen.com
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