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From: munck@linus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Project Xanadu
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 17:13:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 17:13:02 1987
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Reply-To: munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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Keywords: Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson, hypertext, vaporware
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>The following OPINION is an OPINION which is not fact, because it is
>OPINION.
>
>He is a con man.
 
This is also OPINION: it's comforting to know that Ted hasn't changed
over the 20 or so years since he hung around the Hypertext project at
Brown.  That project was the foundation of many things, including one
of the first WYSIWYG editors (running on about $3 million worth of
equipment per user), hypermedia and their current Intermedia, and a
whole bunch of great students now doing graphics and other good stuff
all over the place.  No, hypertext came neither from Apple nor from
Nelson, any more than the mouse came from the Mac or from Xerox or
outliners from Thinktank.  Heck, one of the facilities on the old
Hypertext was the ability to put numbers in rows and columns and have
the machine sum them.  Then you could change an entry with the light-
pen and the sums would change.  I believe that Bricklin was in high
school at the time.