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Aucbvax.2241 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Sun Jul 12 04:42:55 1981

>From TANG@MIT-AI Sun Jul 12 04:37:23 1981 The Bravo (& BravoX) secretary-type editors on the PARC Altos have the "save every keystroke and the original file so that we can always reconstruct" hack. When the system starts to reconstruct it puts a cute "Your Editor is Experiencing Temporary Difficulties, Please Standy By" message on the screen, much in the style of the message TV stations read out over the air after they drop the camera on the floor.

What ever happened to Ted(tm) Nelson's Hypertext system, where the entire state of the document (down to the time between keystrokes of the person editing in) was saved, and the viewer of the document had the option of expanding the footnotes into the referenced texts, and all that sort of thing? I think that he was even addressing the problems of copyright & royalty payments. . . perhaps I should mail this to human-nets, instead.

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