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From: steve@BRL.ARPA (Stephen Wolff)
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Subject: Re:  The Diamond System
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Date: Sat, 30-May-87 11:53:47 EDT
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>   I have heard that NSF is funding the development of a window-based,
>   distributed document handling and text processing system which
>   contains a WYSIWIG editor and has graphics handling and outputting
>   capabilities.

Right.  The program is called EXPRES and its Program Director is Dr. Alvin
Thaler; you can get a more complete description from <athaler@note.nsf.gov>.

>                 Supposedly the system is called the diamond system and
>   a lot of the work is being done at BBN.

Not quite.  BBN is under contract to the University of Michigan, one of the
two EXPRES awardees.  BBN has been developing the Diamond Multi-Media Mail
System for some time under other sponsorship and it is being used in EXPRES
as a start-up component.

But Diamond is NOT EXPRES, and EXPRES is NOT Diamond.