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From: warner@s3snorkel.ARPA (Ken Warner)
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Subject: Re: Have any Hypertext Systems been written in Smalltalk?
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Date: 30 Jan 89 16:54:32 GMT
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In article <44066@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>In article <87291@sun.uucp> rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
>> Have any hypertext systems been written in Smalltalk? 
>The Analyst (Xerox XSIS), written in Smalltalk, has a lot of
>hypertext-like features.  They also make a product called Assistant 
>(I >think) that adds even more.  You can use Analyst without knowing much
>about Smalltalk.

A little more about Analyst.  Analyst supports a variety of ways of
navagating through a heterogenous space containing entities such as
spread-sheets, charts and/or maps, documents, outlines and literaly anything
else that one can construct in Smalltalk.  These entities are generally reached
by clicking on something, representing an entity, causing that entity
to become a scheduled application.  That something can be, for example, an icon
imbedded in another application or presented as an item in a list or a node in
a tree-graph displaying a set or sub-set of the links connecting that
entity to other entities.  

The best feature of Analyst is that it (naturally) comes with complete source
and is easily extendable.  I have no relation with XSIS or ParcPlace.  I'm just
an enthusiastic user.

Ken Warner
warner@snorkel.idunno