[Info-vax] OT: EFF software patent busting & DEC CBT/CBI

[P. Sture]

In article <52cba$49c4f499$cef8af62$11467 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free>,
 "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote:

> Does anyone here remember the details of the Digital CBT/CBI courses 
> available in the early/mid 1980's?
> 
> The USPTO issued a patent for CBT 
> http://w2.eff.org/patent/wanted/patent.php?p=test
> which seems to incorporate most of what I recall was already present in 
> DEC's CBT offerings. The EFF is looking for information about prior art in 
> order to fight this patent.
> 
> I seem to recollect that there were CBT's available for VMS system mangement 
> and Fortran, maybe others.
> 
> I'd dig through my archives to confirm some of the details but I'm laid up 
> with busted-up leg acquired during skiing  few weeks ago.

I certainly remember an EDT course I installed in late 1982. I am 99% 
sure it was called EDTCAI.

Bingo! "The Implications of Window Management for Computer-Based 
Training", August 1981.

http://dexter.cs.uml.edu/~heines/academic/papers/1978dectechrpts/techrpt1
0.pdf

That's a slow link, so I've popped it here as well:

http://www.sture.ch/downloads/edtcai-techrpt10.pdf

-- 
Paul Sture