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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
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Date: 2 Mar 88 01:46:41 GMT
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In article <4129@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>is running unavailable software from Brown University that brings up
>pictures and text from British novels, using the Toolbox.  (By the way,
>they are calling the Brown stuff "hypertext" and taking Ted Nelson's
>name in vain.  It ain't hypertext, it's just hype.)

The name of the system is Intermedia, and it has been described in several
papers.  I would like to know why you say that Intermedia is not hypertext.
(The only thing I can think of is that Intermedia deals with graphics as
well as text, and might better be described as hypermedia.)

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