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It seems SSI's concept is a repackage of the technology we all know and
love..
The Intranet!
Sorry, boys. Netscape and Microsoft have you beat.
Ed Klopfenstein
Technical Writer
Accu-Fab Systems, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
http:\\www.accu-fab.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Glenn [SMTP:sfarmh1 -at- SCFN -dot- THPL -dot- LIB -dot- FL -dot- US]
>Sent: Monday, July 28, 1997 3:02 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Odd Survey explained
>
>//
>The main SSI business offering, called "Knowledge
>Transfer",
>is a totally
>new concept which makes it possible for the
> first time to automatically process "manuals" under
>complete computer
>control, just like accounting data. //
>
>First, the above is the format as I received it.
>Second, the punch line from an o-l-d joke about computers
>...
>''everything is fully computerized. Nothing can possibly go
>wrong go wrong go wrong ...''
>
>Which is about where I think ''computer generated''
>documentation stands today. (Right there with the paperless
>office - to arrive by 1990, right? - and computers that wil
>think for us (AI) due by '92 (19 or 20?).)
>
>john - hand me my quill, Mr. Franklin - glenn
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