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.LTR Mr. Richard E. Buten
Proctor & Gamble Company
P. O. Box 599
Cincinnati, Ohio 45201

Dear Mr. Buten:
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Sorry to have been so slow in responding to your note of February 8.
I have been backlogged with bureaucratic duties.

While we do have a rather convenient interactive documentation system,
its development has been incidental to our main interest: artificial
intelligence research.  I have no current documentation giving an
overview of our text handling facilities, but enclose an internal
report from several years ago that outlines what was then our plan (Section 3).  
This plan has been carried out pretty much as described there.

In particular, we now have:
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a) display terminals in everyone's office with full text
and drawing service, as well as closed circuit television capability
for watching and listening to special seminars and programs from various sources,

b) interactive display editors for creating and modifying text and
certain special kinds of drawings,

c) connection to the ARPA network of forty-some computers across the
country, permitting interactive and stored-message communication with
individuals or common-interest groups wherever they are,

d) an interactive spelling checker that "learns" new words as they arise,

e) a document compiler called PUB that handles text justification,
section, page, and figure numbering, symbolic cross-references, and
automatically generates tables of contents and indexing,

f) a Xerox Graphics Printer connected to our computer, which can print
text in arbitrary combinations of fonts and various kinds of drawings.

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This letter has been produced using the text editor, the document compiler
PUB, and the Xerox Graphics Printer.  (I didn't use the spelling checker
and may get away with it!)  If you were on the ARPA network, I could have
sent it to your computer within one second, so that you would automatically
receive it the next time you logged in.  The effective cost of doing that
would have been substantially less than postage.

If you or some of your people are out this way, you are welcome to stop in
and have a look and, if you are interested, make off with some more detailed
documentation.

.lde


enclosure: SAILON-60