From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Eckhardt To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <22312.1111991401.1@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:30:02 -0500 Message-ID: <22313.1111991402@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: [9fans] increase visibility of "Help" paper? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2d7cb036-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 For a while I've been thinking how great it would be if there were "training videos" for sam and Acme-- over-the-shoulder shots of the screen, with a running commentary summarizing the user input actions. This would be useful in terms of advertising, too, since people might think "gee, how does the screen do the right thing so fast?". Anyway, last night while in the Plan 9 wiki avoiding work, I stumbled on a 1st edition paper documenting "Help", which preceded Acme, which is stored at http://www.fywss.com/plan9/plan9man/12help.ps.gz It's great, pretty much an Acme training video in paper form, and includes a dramatically-delivered punch line. I think it would help a lot of people if this paper were included in the "User Interfaces" part of the "official" paper list at http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/index.html perhaps with a disclaimer along the lines of "for further information on Acme's goals and use, described in the context of an early prototype, see "A Minimalist Global User Interface". Dave Eckhardt