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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: What to do about > 32K of data?
Message-ID: <10520021@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 89 00:10:27 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> [...]
> 
> The problem is trying to squash linear text into a hypertext model.  I
> think many people try to make HyperCard a word processor, which it is
> not.
> 
> If the person has a really large text file to read, then read it with
> the MPW Shell which can open and work with files in the megabytes
> without any problem.
> 
> If someone want to use a hypertext system, then the information should
> be broken down into hypertext sized chunks.  Hypertext is supposed to be
> fast, and HyperCard has a card as the unit of information.  It may seem
> limiting (and indeed it is when thought of as a word processor), but if
> the new paradigm of hypertext is used, then having cards is seen as a
> bonus.  Let me explain...
> 
> [...]
> 
> Dan Allen
> HyperCard Team
> Apple Computer

Do you guys really expect to keep HyperCard viable? Or do you just want
people to move over to SuperCard and its ilk?

I can see either approach as being reasonable to you.  I can't see users
staying with HyperCard if it won't do things they want for no other
reasons than an ideology Apple holds on "what's right for HC."

If there are technical or compatibility problems, I can buy that.  If
you've just decided that you know what's RIGHT, forget it.  I'll use
something else.

Remember the first Macs.  Little non-expandable toasters.  Jobs may have
thought that was RIGHT for the Mac.  If he and Apple had stuck by that,
this newsgroup probably wouldn't have 10% of the traffic it does today.

Scott Bayes
concerned