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From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Alan Kay?
Message-ID: <4972@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 88 16:34:26 GMT
References: <324@uva.UUCP> <17471@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <6169@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Ritchey Ruff)
Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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In article <6169@well.UUCP> sac@well.UUCP (Steve Cisler) writes:
>
>John Nagle referred to a short video about the 'ultimate expression
>of the Dynabook'. It's called Knowledge Navigator and doesn't last more
>than ten minutes. User Groups were sent copies of it, so you might check
>with the Apple org. in the Netherlands.

An even better demo tape from Apple is called "WorldView".  It
describes what Apple is trying to do in hooking up the Grollier(?)
Encylopedia to hyper-card (at least this is what it looks like).
They also vary between "this is how the product should work" and
"this is how we would like it to eventually look".  Very impressive!
It has you wandering around the world, stoping and looking at things
that are interesting, "zooming in" on something, following links
to other countries,...  I think this was another that was sent out
to user groups...

--ritchey ruff	ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!tektronix!orstcs!ruffwork