08.24.99
Xanadu!
Aug 24 Tue (05 PM)
Oh My Goddess! It’s been Released!
http://www.byte.com/nntp/joncon?comment_id=1701
This is amazing. I never expected Xanadu to actually see the light of day. Xanadu has always been one of those mythical pieces of software. Ted Nelson actually releasing this stuff is like King Richard returning with the Holy Grail, Excalibur rising out of the Lady of the Lake’s hand, SETI finding The Message, and Ender returning, all wrapped up into one.
http://www.udanax.com/ http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/
This is amazing. I’m utterly astounded. Flabergasted. Nearly speachless!
Nelson has been working on this single piece of technology since 1964.
http://www.xanadu.net/ http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_64.html
But now comes the matter of living up to the expectation. At some point I’d like to set up a Green server, but I’m afraid I probably don’t have the time, nor the spare hardware to dedicate to it.
Wow.