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Article #42832Hypertext on the PC
From: Tom Boutell
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 22:06
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! CRANBERRIES! ALBUQUERQUE! This is the start of the end of the beginning of the middle of the last day of the first part of your life! NEWSPRINT GALORE! Disclaimer: Datclaimer. Elvis is alive and doing my laundry. Turn down your air guitar, I can't see the band! I lied, he's dead. Have a #$&$( day.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!udel!toffee!boutell From: boutell@toffee.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Hypertext on the PC Keywords: Hypertext Hypercard Message-ID: <11779@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 21 Feb 90 22:06:42 GMT Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Delaware -- 040 Smith Sun Lab Lines: 25