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Posted by Aaron Bingham on Thu Apr 10 10:22AM CDT 2003
from the udanax mailing list dept.
Hi,
Well, I'm probably not the typical newbie, but newbie I am. Xanadu
only emerged from the background noise for me a couple of days ago. I started looking seriously at Xanadu after playing with CritSuite (http://crit.org), in the hopes that it would help solve some of my frustrations with the Web. (Answer: maybe, sometimes)
The more I read about Xanadu and play with Udanax Green, the more I am convinced that the world *needs* this. Xanadu (the idea) solves many
of the problems with computing that have troubled me deeply. Even a 'personal editionD' would be extremely valuable for me, though the complete networked version would of course be worth much more.
Since I think this is such a good thing, I am somewhat perplexed that the project has received so little public attention and corporate backing. In any case, I have a number of questions I hope someone can answer. If they're already answered somewhere, please just point me there.
* Is Green architechtually ready to 'be' Xanadu, or does it have fundamental limitations that require a new effort (perhaps an existing one)?
* What limitations of the Green design was Gold intended to fix?
* Why is it important that ZigZag and Xanadu be integrated? ZigZag is undoubtedly cool--I've played with Gzz a bit--but is it worth delaying the deployment of Xanadu to redesign it in terms of ZZ?
* Where can I read about the distributed aspects of Xanadu? E.g. how the enfiladeD distributes, how caching works, how micro-payments interact with caching, etc.
* The Udanax Green back end can supposedly store any type of data, but how can the front end determine the type of a document, since the back end does not seem to store any type information?
* How would multi-media documents--here meaning those containing any two distinct types of data, such as text and graphics--be implemented? Must they be constructed from separate documents (in the Green sense) using transclusions, or is there another mechanism?
--
Aaron Bingham
abingham@sfu.ca
P.S. It's snowing heavily outside. Come on weather, get a clue! It's April!
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As We May Think,
1945
Vannevar Bush
Augmenting Human Intellect:A Conceptual Framework,
1962
Doug Engelbart
Literary Machines,
1981, 87, 93
Ted Nelson
Engines of Creation, Chapter 14
The Network of Knowledge,
1986, 87
K. Eric Drexler
Hypertext
Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge,
1986
K. Eric Drexler
SF:EarthWeb,
1999
Marc Stiegler
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