Yes, there was Publish-&-Subscribe in it, but the really-amazing thing about 
OpenDoc is that everything would have been document-centric, versus 
application-centric like it is now and has been forever. In any 
document/application you would systematically use the components of your 
choice: your favorite text-editing object for ANY text-editing, your favorite 
graphics-editing obj for ANY graphics-editing,and so-on. Furthermore, these 
widgets would interoperate with each other, automatically share screen 
real-estate, negotiate among themselves ... like active software agents, aka 
Artificial Intelligence. It would have been.. GREAT! Especially nowadays with 
all of the horsepower we have. Sigh!



On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:25:37 PM, Dr. Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:
 


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Lynn Fredricks <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Remember
> OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe? :-)
>

Oh, yes.  Publish & Subscribe seemed perfect for some of what I was doing
back then.  And any minute now, that update from my excel sheet to my word
document may finally complete . . . (but I'm not getting my hopes up).

They really overlooked that things had to complete in finite time--and I
had a fast machine for the time.


-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462

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