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Note re my earlier note on memex, etc.
The Memex project that I was responsible for at Digital eventually, in
a very twisted form, became part of VMS/Motif and was called first
"LinkWorks" and later "DEClinks". I had always thought that we should
be working with "Hyperinformation" not "Hypertext" and thus had pushed
for this capability to be put in the Operating system, rather than at
the application layer.
The Linkworks project was also the way that Tim Berners-Lee
first discovered Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" article. As TBL
writes on the W3 site:
"I came across Vannevar Bush's article first in the documentation of
Digital Equipment Corporation's "Memex" project which became
"Linkworks" for VMS. I don't remember when that came out. Great
paper." See: [3].
If you're interested in history check out:
[1] Chapter 7: Working with LinkWorks in OpenVMS documentation
[2] Hypertext '91 proceedings. LinksWorks was demonstrated at
that conference
bob wyman
[1]
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/5637/5637pro_007.html#hyperhelp_
chap
[2] http://www.w3.org/Conferences/HT91/Overview.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
In the VMS documentation, DECLinks is described thusly:
"DEClinks, built on an open, object-oriented data model, is a set of
services for creating, managing, and traversing informational links
between different multimedia data, such as electronic mail, online
manuals, pictures, design notes, and slide presentations. DEClinks can
link video, audio, image-processing, and electronic publishing data.
This linked environment is called the hyperinformation environment.
Hyperapplications permit application end users to link in-formation
objects through a Link menu interface. DEClinks services, with the
DEClinks Manager application, help orga-nize information by allowing
users to focus on the information rather than on where the information
comes from and where it is stored."
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