Dilwyn,
a poke in a different direction , then: In the late eighties/early
nineties, when C68 entered stage, there were attempts to port the
TeX/LaTex typesetting system from Minix to QDOS. The term hypertext would
certainly apply to this (but in a different sense), and it has references
to a compiler as well. Whether the attempts ended up with working code,
however, I do not recall.
Regards
Tobias
Ah, thank you Tobias, this ties in with something else the correspondent
mentioned. I'll pass on this message to Terry - I hope he finds this useful.
I now remember correponding briefly with Ralf Rekoendt about the TeX system
back then.
Dilwyn Jones
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Hi Dilwyn,
Many thanks for the information from Timothy.
The software I was talking about was in use about 10 years before the web
appeared.
The idea of Hypertext was in discussion from around 1965, long before the
Mac's Hypercard.
Many of us were using software that had 'Hypertext' in its name in the early
80s. I can date it because I was one of the earliest QL users and I was
programming in it before the IBM PC came of the market.
This software enable one to write books or documents (only for use on one
computer) that had a clickthrough feature so that you could click through to
learn more about something (like a wiki) or even make a jump to a different
document. I remember it was written in C and I remember early discussion
about the idea of object orientation at that time (a friend at Lancaster Uni
had just written one of the early PhDs on object orientation based on ADA I
think the only softwares to use OO at the time).
The QL software I remember was very similar to the hypetext software called
GUIDE (written at a uni in the south of England) and I'm waiting for my
brain to come up with the author!
Many thanks again from here in Australia,
Best regards,
Terry
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