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From: robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus)
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Subject: HyperCard design thoughts
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 19:56:07 EST
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Summary: Some intriguing HC thoughts...

The latest issue of MacWorld (Nov. '87) has an editorial by David Bunnell
about HyperCard and Hypermedia in general.  Some of the points he raises
affect all of us who are interested in hypermedia, and especially those of us
trying to produce useful stackware.

In the article, David Bunnell gives an example of a possible difficulty in
attempting to design useful, general-purpose reference stacks.  The example
concerns a research project in which a friend of Bunnell's was involved.  The
friend needed to research the characteristics of a particular island off the
coast of Peru (i.e. what was the island's color, how did its size change with
the tides, what was the weather like, etc.).  None of the reference works at
their disposal could help; not even the Peruvian consulate had the infor-
mation.  At long last, a librarian suggested a book called _Birds of the
Americas_, on the off-chance there might be some useful information in