Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!agate!eris!doug
From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Xanadu (was Re: Time is of the essence on IPC.)
Message-ID: <8560@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 88 22:07:00 GMT
References: <1571@louie.udel.EDU> <353@brambo.UUCP> <1661@louie.udel.EDU> <627@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <908@nuchat.UUCP> <8531@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 33

In article <8531@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> doug@eris.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>In article <908@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>
>>Hey! What happened to Amiga Xanadu? Anything new on that front lately?
>
>For one thing, don't hold your breath for anything out of the Xanadu
>project...they are chronically understaffed and underfunded. I

My news on the subject was old, so I did some more checking last night
and discovered some inaccuracies in my posting. There are some changes
happening with Xanadu that might result in something concrete, but it's
not-to-be-discussed at the moment. It may be some months before they're
ready to allow any public statements about what, if anything, happened
or will happen.

Yes, they do have a working Amiga front end, a simple character-oriented
port from an IBM PC. And the backend on the Sun sounds like it's
in at least moderately good shape after all.

And it's not Xanadu documentation that's distributed via Owl's Guide
hypertext program...what happened is that the author of Guide,
Alan Boyd, got the rights to Literary Machines for distribution in
Guide form.

As to the Xanadu attitude towards both Guide and Hypertext, it's that
both are helping increase awareness of hypertext, and as such are
Good Things, but that they are significantly different than what
Xanadu is doing and hence are not any kind of competition. I guess
that's obvious, anyway.


	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
			or	ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug