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From: donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: "IEEE Standards Launches Hypertext Series", quote with comment
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Date: 24 Jul 89 00:23:10 GMT
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I will print these discussions off and mail them to the appropriate
folks at IEEE.  No, they don't have an email address (of any form) that
can be gotten to from this net.  (Unless someone knows of a way to get
to Compmail+.)

I have already mailed Jay Iorio a copy of the first posting on this
("Standards for Standards") that appeared in comp.sw.eng (or some such;
I'm not sure of the group right now), and which now appears here.  I also
handed his boss a copy personally.  (No other postings on the topic
were present when I left for San Jose, and this is the first time I've
gotten to this group since.)

The system was demoed at the San Jose POSIX meeting.  It seemed to work
well, but I'm no connoseur of hypertext systems to evaluate it.  In 
looking at it, it could have used a lot more links than it had, but 
that's a standards-writer talking, and I don't know about it from
the point of view of an ordindary user.  There was some talk of a
POSIX implementation in the future.  If/when that happens I intend
to try it quickly.

Even if this doesn't turn out to be the right answer, someone had to 
start somewhere, and I consider the effort commendable and valuable;
standards are difficult beasts to understand and something like hypertext 
would likely make them a bit easier.

Donn Terry
HP, Ft. Collins
Chair IEEE 1003.1

(And no, I don't speak for either in any way.)