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From: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard files are HUGE!
Message-ID: <2772@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 23:31:32 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2772
Posted: Tue Nov 24 23:31:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 08:00:04 EST
References: <881@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Reply-To: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Cavallino)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: Bill Atkinson genius
Summary: it's NOT a database

In article <881@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>  It seems like those who
>sell databases shouldn't worry about competition from Hypercard
      ^^^^^^^^^
>until we get Gigabyte disk systems, since just a few database
>files will soon choke the largest hard disk.

Last week I attended a talk given by Bill Atkinson at a Chicago Mac users
group meeting.  One of the things he stated emphatically was that HyperCard is
NOT a straight database, nor was it intended to be.  Bill calls HyperCard a
"software Erector Set, only you can make new parts."  Bill is currently on a
tour of user groups around the country, sponsered by Apple.  If you can get
to see him, GO!!  He's lots of fun and very informative.  Seeing him playing
around with HyperCard is just awesome.
	JohnC
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