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- Alternate views of hypertext <sum09 1 8>
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- "Hypertext" clearly means different things to different people, such as:
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- Apple's HyperCard -- A mouse-oriented index card database <link26> -- good
- programming language/graphics, but extremely slow
- construction <link25 1 20> -- and not the knowledge
- navigator <link28 -removes> claimed by Apple's PR.
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- Ted Nelson's Xanadeu The creator of word "hypertext" emphasizes infinite
- undo and infinite sliceable royalties rather than the
- creation and classification of knowledge <link37>
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- Owl's Guide -- Reflects 10-year old NOTECARDS from Xerox -- problems
- include compatibility <link16> and construction speed
- <link25 -400>.
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- KnowledgePro -- Mixes Prolog and Smalltalk, but rule-based systems
- contain inferior forms of knowedge <link64>
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- AskSam -- Text retrieval is not a system of knowledge <link26>