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From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.misc
Subject: Project Xanadu
Message-ID: <2259@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 12:35:57 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.2259
Posted: Thu Nov  5 12:35:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 15:53:31 EST
References: <299@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 16
Keywords: Ted Nelson, HyperText, Xanadu, Vapourware
Xref: utgpu comp.sys.mac.hypercard:36 comp.misc:1390

In article <299@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>Not to slight V. Bush for his theoretical contributions, until Ted Nelson
>they were largely just that. 
	<amusing anecdote deleted>
>The moral? Ted Nelson ALMOST invented vaporware, too!

Speaking of vapourware, has anybody heard any recent news about
project Xanadu?  The last time I saw Nelson (July 1985), he was losing
hope of finding a large industrial sponsor for implementing Xanadu
on a mainframe, and was making plans for implementing "personal Xanadu
for the IBM PC".
-- 
Doug Moen
University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
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