On Sun, 13 May 2001, Greg Newby wrote:

> Not to be confused with "Macroscope," by Piers Anthony (1969)
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/roboman/www/sigma/review/macroscope.html
> Highly recommended.
>   -- Greg
> 
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:47:07AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> > 
> > http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MACRBOOK.html
> 

Agreed, the second C-64 BBS I ever put up was called "Macroscope" after
that book. We wrote this 'plain English' interface that emulated the
computer in the book. Ran dog slow...

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