Re: DreamWords [was: pipe dreams]

[leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Peter Evans wrote:
>
> During the last 24 hours, Leslie Bialler (in this thread) and Dorothy Day
> (in the NB thread) have each made passing references to "Smart Words" in a
> way that suggested that this was a real-world program that might run on
> real-world computers. By contrast, I'd concluded some time ago that it was
> no more than a harmless fantasy dreamt up by Kenneth Frank, and that
> others' discussion of it here was partly a running joke (though by now
> rather a tired one) and partly a good-natured attempt to humor KF. Have I
> missed something?

Yes. The product exists. We are waiting for Ken to announce that he has
"spun off" the word processing engine, a real 32-bit XyWrite for us
critters. It might be soon.



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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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