Whiteboard: UdanaxGreen	last revised by 64.6.32.173 on Aug 17, 2005 3:52 am

Udanax-green represents the particular back-end implementation discussed in Ted Nelson's book Literary Machines. It was started in 1981 and developed until 1988 when efforts switched to the Udanax-gold implementation in Smalltalk.

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Development Status

Udanax-Green consists of 18,212 lines of ANSI C code spread across 66 source files totaling 507 KB. It relies upon the tree-structure called the enfilade for it's internal design. The Udanax-Green code does compile and run under Linux, and you can use the Python-based front-end included with it to view and edit documents. There is however, a timing bug in the Python front-end that prevents socket communications with the back-end from another machine.

The name green comes from the code's relative newness and lack of finish. The implementation currently lacks the following features:

• any user identification/authentication/access control facility

• historical trace

• any accounting system for allocating access charges

• any form of back-end to back-end communications

• the ability to store more than a few hundred megabytes of text, due to a simplistic bitmap allocation scheme