Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call For Discussion: comp.sys.mac reorganization Message-ID: <1990Feb21.154739.17264@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 15:47:39 GMT References: <38768@apple.Apple.COM> <3996@hub.UUCP> <3480@zephyr.sw.mcc.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 16 In article <3480@zephyr.sw.mcc.com> werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) writes: >> re: what about hypercard? > > given its "tri-sexualness" (or is it more?) of OS-software, > programming platform, application HyperCard is an application, and it is also a programming platform. It is NOT operating system software. The "system software" talk is just a fiction used to allow Apple to spin off "all" their "applications", but keep HyperCard. It's doublethink. Personally, I think comp.sys.mac.apps.hypercard is probably the right way to go, in spite of the length of the name. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner