Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!apple!netcom!ric From: ric@netcom.UUCP (Richard Bretscheider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypertext/Hypermedia by J Alfred Prufrock Message-ID: <6942@netcom.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 90 06:42:27 GMT References: <1748@acad.cut.oz> <3468@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 249-0290 guest} Lines: 26 >In article , >m1tdg00@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov (Taegan D. Goddard) writes: >> >> Stay with the PC for hypertext/hypermedia programs. Owl for the PC was >> first - 1 year before hypercard. Many more on the way, including Plus >> a hypertool for PCs running Windows 3.0. OOPS. Sorry, but you're wrong here. Owl International, makers of Guide, made Guide and Guide Envelopes for the Mac at least a year before it was available for the PC. I don't think the even made Envelopes for the PC (it was their runtime scheme.) Owl is pretty goofy to work with. Hard to keep things straight while you're working on a document and even harder to debug. I put forward my humble opinion as someone who was trying to use their technology for a "big" software company with the assistance of the president of Owl International. I was there man :^). Oh yeah, Plus was/is out for the Mac already. Is the PC version here yet? I will agree that it is probably a better tool for cross platform work...then again, it's based on HyperCard. Make mine HyperCard...make mine Macintosh. -- Richard A. Bretschneider These are my words. My employer's Ric Bret words are often spoken in haste, and RAB rarely resemble my compassionate prose.