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From: jad@lanl.gov (John De Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT hypercard analogues
Keywords: hypercard
Message-ID: <5672@lanl.gov>
Date: 12 Nov 90 05:32:36 GMT
References: <1990Nov9.070607.13585@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1990Nov9.184957.14763@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jad@lanl.gov (John De Vries)
Organization: Los Alamos Natl. Labs, Los Alamos, NM
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In article <1990Nov9.184957.14763@watdragon.waterloo.edu> vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag) writes:
>In article <1990Nov9.070607.13585@Neon.Stanford.EDU> hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
>>I have been informed that there is no analogue to hypercard for
>>the NeXT.
>>
>>Does anyone have a different understanding?
>
>According to the Fall '90 Software and Peripherals manual from NeXT, there is a
>Hypercard analogue called HyperCube


By Thoughtful Software (or some such name) and it IS VAPORWARE!  I
called them about 3 weeks ago and got a "maybe 1st quarter 1991" or
so, but I don't think it'll be that soon.  Yeah, it is in the catalog,
but no such software is shipping.

Which is too bad, 'cuz I could have used it too!

John deVries (just back from the NeXT Developer's Camp, which was
              THOROUGHLY worth the money!!)
jad@lanl.gov