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- ASCII Hypertext <sum10 1 5>
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- HyperRez uses angle brackets and ASCII files for these reasons:
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- Easy .......... Requires only a word processor <link13> to create hypertext
- knowledge systems -- and jumps are traceable in printed files.
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- Compatible .... Most classes of software easily retrieve and use information
- contained in a HyperRez system. <link02 1 16>
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- Universality .. With requirements, policies, procedures, descriptions,
- specifications, laws, or diagnostics, textual representations
- of ideas occur 10,000 times more frequently than do graphical
- representations. HyperRez is designed for showing the
- organization of textual knowledge. <link37>
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- Speed ......... In construction speed, manual techniques can achieve rates
- of 200 files and 500 links per day compared to the maximum
- of five screens per day with graphical hypertext. With
- automatic abstracting software, construction rates are
- magnitudes higher. For example, I once built 50,000 hypertext
- links in three hours. <link10 1 5>