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[andrewducker]

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[andrewducker]

Because Hacker News had a link to this:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//3.06/xanadu_pr.html

[martling.livejournal.com]

GNU Hurd fits somewhere between the two.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Ted Nelson, like Bob Wills, is still the king.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You missed the third option: the Analytical Engine.

After that, it would have to be Ted's dream, despite the fact that there have been source releases of two partial implementations (Xanadu Green and Xanadu Gold). I talked with him about some of the background details when I was writing my thesis (there are some bold assertions in Literary Machines regarding distribution), and he admitted that a) that stuff had never been written and b) the Xanadu team had never been able to work out how they could effectively distributed open hypermedia.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oh.. I thought we were talking about.. never mind.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

The Analytical Engine?

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Fusion power. With Xanadu it was always six months from release: with fusion power, it was always thirty years from release, and it's been creeping up in the last decade or so.