I remember very well that there was an article somewhere in the QL literature (QL World? Quanta? Quasar?) about someone developing such a software eventually for sale later. It was well before internet hypertext and I was fascinated by the principle. But I think that this software never became commercial. I don't remember anything else though, like software title or author's name..
Arnould On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:14:19 +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote > > 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 > ===================== > Original message follows: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
