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Hypertext on the PC

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From: Tom Boutell
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 22:06
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What's the status of hypertext software on on the PC these days? I'm vaguely
aware of a few other packages, but I've just developed one, and I'm wondering
how many people might be interested in it. I haven't decided how much farther
to take it, what sort of distribution to go for, and so on, but it IS up and
running in a serious way with VERY efficient storage; even if your stack
contains several thousand cards and 30,000 links among them it'll run about
as fast as a stack with only 10 or so cards. This thing has a VERY hot
engine and if there's real interest I may market it as shareware.

For the unitiated, hypertext- as in, for example, the unrelated Hypercard
by Apple Computer now included with the Macintosh- is a new concept in
reading: the ability to jump to additional material by, for instance, clicking
on a word that looks interesting on the current screen. VERY intuitive stuff.
The package I'm coming up with doesn't have a language of its own like
Hypercard, but does provide some seriously efficient capabilities for
linking text among a large number of cards.

If you're interested in beta- testing this package, or have any information
on hypertext and PCs, please reply by email to boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu.
Thanks!

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From: boutell@toffee.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell)
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Subject: Hypertext on the PC
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Date: 21 Feb 90 22:06:42 GMT
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