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From: dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)
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Subject: Re: Lecture notes
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 10:22:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 10:22:19 1985
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I have attended many classes that were offered by various CPU/software
vendors (IBM, DEC, AMDAHL, AT&T). These classes are usually taught
with the aid of overhead projected 'foils'. These foils contained
either a diagram of some sort, or a bulleted list of points that
were to be discussed. The student is given copies of the foils so
that they may take notes.

The problem lies in the fact that I take lousy notes, insted I preferr
to just listen to the instructor. Therefor, whenever I go to look
back at the foils years later, they don't give me information, only
topics of discusssion.

An exception to this was an AT&T UNIX Internals class I took last
year. They used foils, and gave us copies of them in a loose leaf
notebook. If you opened your book flat, on the right hand page was
the foil being discussed, and on the left hand page (the back of the
previous foil) were all the notes you would ever need!

I use these notes to this day as an effective reference manual.
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                               Dave Lowrey

"To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question....
 ....or is it?"
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