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From: lrasmuss@dante.nmsu.edu (Linda Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypertext, UNIX
Summary: User-defined Links; INTERMEDIA
Message-ID: <190@opus.NMSU.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:12:35 GMT
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In article <1629@iesd.dk>, fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
> 
> 
> Both GUIDE and Emacs Info are based on browsing static collections of
> text. An author creates a hypertext document (e.g. a manual), using
> some form of document language to set up links, create document
> structure, etc. A reader can then browse the document using the links.
> 
> You cannot add links dynamically, based on your own ideas of
> information relations, say. Neither can you use these systems to
> create database-like systems, the way you do in HyperCard.
> 
> I would really like to see a dynamic hypertext system for unix,
> possibly based on a network server...
> 
The experimental system being developed at Brown University might interest
you.  According to "Dispatch," the University of Alberta at Edmonton 
computing newsletter, with Brown's INTERMEDIA system "unlike most
hypermedia systems, multiple users can follow and create links 
simultaneously."  The "Dispatch" article is very current (March 1989),but
I have still not heard anything about widespread or commercial availability
of INTERMEDIA.  Has anyone else?




                           Linda (Raz) Rasmussen 
                           NMSU Computer Center