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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 14 May 89 02:35:08 GMT
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In article <MYP8k1y00Uka0T58sy@andrew.cmu.edu| bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
|papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|| True, I was referring to the multitasking. As far as "dynamic links" are
|| concerned, only the CMU Andrew System supports them today.  As a Mac user
|| you'll have to wait until 1990-1991 for BOTH multi-tasking and dynamic links.
|Just a small correction:
|the( phrase "dynamic linking" used in Andrew refers to run-time linking of
|code modules (sort of like amiga .libraries ..
|I think what the apple has in mind is more like inserting hypertext-type
|references to other files, etc, into documents.  Actually, Andrew can do this
|as well, but I don't know of any term for it.

While I used the name used by Apple, I actually meant the "hypertext" meaning
you are referring to. For example, in Andrew one could include a set of
"spreadsheet" cells into a text document. When this is done, the cells "keep"
their spreadsheet "behavior": if you change a value, the other ones will be
recomputed accordingly.  To my knowledge, no other toolkit for X11 allows 
such "linking".

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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