Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:675 comp.text:7651 Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu From: hamilton@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Doug Hamilton) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.text Subject: Re: Designing Online Documentation Message-ID: <4804@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 23 Nov 90 16:16:05 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Followup-To: alt.hypertext Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 46 In article <63270@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, mtr@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Mary T Reina) writes... > > Hey there! > >First time caller here and I am in need. I am doing a research paper for a >graduate course and I've kinda picked a topic in which I am afraid may not >even exist. So I am asking you good people to give me some direction. > >Here's my idea: > > Vannevar Bush's idea of the memex machine made me think that the ultimate > linking of nodes could possibly be done through the complex networking > in which we are on right now, i.e. I want to link to one > document within another document in a hypertext system or > pool of information > > located on the other side of the country or world. Is this a just a > > notion or is this type of linking being done or at least researched... > how about discussed? >Mary Ted Nelson's Xanadu dreams are reportedly close to a first concrete, commercial incarnation. Xanadu work is occuring at Autodesk (the folks who bring you AutoCad and Autodesk Anamator). Recent articles to give you a background on this in Byte (Sept 1990, p298) and PC-Computing (October, 1990). Contact Xanadu Operating Company via Autodesk @ 415-332-2344. Autodeak 2320 Marinship Way Sausalito, CA 94965 d. ...........hamilton@VMS.MACC.WISC.EDU or hamilton@WISCMACC ............Douglas Hamilton, Instructional Technology Support ............Academic Computing Center, University of Wisconsin ....................1210 West Dayton, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 ..............................(608) 262-5667 or (608) 262-0626