A solution: Hypertext Personal Experience with Hypertext In 1980, I wrote a program for keeping track of software
with which I was involved in the PS control system. Called Enquire, it allowed one to store snippets of information,
and to link related pieces together in any way. To find information, one progressed via the links from one sheet to
another, rather like in the old computer game "adventure". I used this for my personal record of people and module
s. It was similar to the application Hypercard produced more recently by Apple for the Macintosh. A difference was
that Enquire, although lacking the fancy graphics, ran on a multiuser system, and allowed many people to access th
e same data. Documentation of the RPC project (concept) Most of the documentation is available on VMS, with the two
principle manuals being stored in the CERNDOC system. 1) includes: The VAX/NOTES conference VXCERN::RPC 2) include
s: Test and Example suite 3) includes: RPC BUG LISTS 4) includes: RPC System: Implementation Guide Information for mai
ntenance, porting, etc. 5) includes: Suggested Development Strategy for RPC Applications 6) includes: "Notes on RPC
", Draft 1, 20 feb 86 7) includes: "Notes on Proposed RPC Development" 18 Feb 86 8) includes: RPC User Manual How
to build and run a distributed system. 9) includes: Draft Specifications and Implementation Notes 10) includes: The
RPC HELP facility 11) describes: THE REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL PROJECT in DD/OC Help Display Select Back Quit Mark Got
o_mark Link Add Edit Fig 2. A screen in an Enquire scheme. This example is basically a list, so the list of links
is more important than the text on the node itself. Note that each link has a type ("includes" for example) and
may also have comment associated with it. (The bottom line is a menu bar.) Soon after my re-arrival at CERN in
the DD division, I found that the environment was similar to that in PS, and I missed Enquire. I therefore produce
d a version for the VMS, and have used it to keep track of projects, people, groups, experiments, software modu
les and hardware devices with which I have worked. I have found it personally very useful. I have made no effo
rt to make it suitable for general consumption, but have found that a few people have successfully used it to
browse through the projects and find out all sorts of things of their own accord. Hot spots Meanwhile, several
programs have been made exploring these ideas, both commercially and academically. Most of them use "hot spo
ts" in documents, like icons, or highlighted phrases, as sensitive areas. touching a hot spot with a mouse brings
up the relevant information, or expands the text on the screen to include it. Imagine, then, the references in th
is document, all being associated with the network address of the thing to which they referred, so that while re
ading this document you could skip to them with a click of the mouse. "Hypertext" is a term coined in the 1950s
by Ted Nelson [...], which has become popular for these systems, although it is used to embrace two different ide
as. One idea (which is relevant to this problem) is the concept: "Hypertext": Human-readable information linked
together in an unconstrained way. The other idea, which is independent and largely a question of technology an
d time, is of multimedia documents which include graphics, speech and video. I will not discuss this latter aspec
t further here, although I will use the word "Hypermedia" to indicate that one is not bound to text. It has been
difficult to assess the effect of a large hypermedia system on an organisation, often because these systems ne
ver had seriously large-scale use. For this reason, we require large amounts of existing information should be
accessible using any new information management system.A solution: Hypertext Personal Experience with Hype
rtext In 1980, I wrote a program for keeping track of software with which I was involved in the PS control sys
tem. Called Enquire, it allowed one to store snippets of information, and to link related pieces together in any
way. To find information, one progressed via the links from one sheet to another, rather like in the old comput
er game "adventure". I used this for my personal record of people and modules. It was similar to the applicatio
n Hypercard produced more recently by Apple for the Macintosh. A difference was that Enquire, although lacki
ng the fancy graphics, ran on a multiuser system, and allowed many people to access the same data. Document
ation of the RPC project (concept) Most of the documentation is available on VMS, with the two principle manual
s being stored in the CERNDOC system. 1) includes: The VAX/NOTES conference VXCERN::RPC 2) includes: Test and
Example suite 3) includes: RPC BUG LISTS 4) includes: RPC System: Implementation Guide Information for maintena
nce, porting, etc. 5) includes: Suggested Development Strategy for RPC Applications 6) includes: "Notes on RPC"
, Draft 1, 20 feb 86 7) includes: "Notes on Proposed RPC Development" 18 Feb 86 8) includes: RPC User Manual How
to build and run a distributed system. 9) includes: Draft Specifications and Implementation Notes 10) includes
: The RPC HELP facility 11) describes: THE REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL PROJECT in DD/OC Help Display Select Back Quit
Mark Goto_mark Link Add Edit Fig 2. A screen in an Enquire scheme. This example is basically a list, so the lis
t of links is more important than the text on the node itself. Note that each link has a type ("includes" for
example) and may also have comment associated with it. (The bottom line is a menu bar.) Soon after my re-ar
rival at CERN in the DD division, I found that the environment was similar to that in PS, and I missed Enquire.
I therefore produced a version for the VMS, and have used it to keep track of projects, people, groups, experim
ents, software modules and hardware devices with which I have worked. I have found it personally very useful. I
have made no effort to make it suitable for general consumption, but have found that a few people have successf
ully used it to browse through the projects and find out all sorts of things of their own accord. Hot spots Meanw
hile, several programs have been made exploring these ideas, both commercially and academically. Most of them use
"hot spots" in documents, like icons, or highlighted phrases, as sensitive areas. touching a hot spot with a mouse br
ings up the relevant information, or expands the text on the screen to include it. Imagine, then, the references in th
is document, all being associated with the network address of the thing to which they referred, so that while readin
g this document you could skip to them with a click of the mouse. "Hypertext" is a term coined in the 1950s by Ted Ne
lson [...], which has become popular for these systems, although it is used to embrace two different ideas. One idea
(which is relevant to this problem) is the concept: "Hypertext": Human-readable information linked together in an u
nconstrained way. The other idea, which is independent and largely a question of technology and time, is of multi
media documents which include graphics, speech and video. I will not discuss this latter aspect further here, altho
ugh I will use the word "Hypermedia" to indicate that one is not bound to text. It has been difficult to assess the eff
ect of a large hypermedia system on an organisation, often because these systems never had seriously large-scale
use. For this reason, we require large amounts of existing information should be accessible using any new informa
tion management system.A solution: Hypertext Personal Experience with Hypertext In 1980, I wrote a program for ke
eping track of software with which I was involved in the PS control system. Called Enquire, it allowed one to store
snippets of information, and to link related pieces together in any way. To find information, one progressed via th
e links from one sheet to another, rather like in the old computer game "adventure". I used this for my personal
record of people and modules. It was similar to the application Hypercard produced more recently by Apple for
the Macintosh. A difference was that Enquire, although lacking the fancy graphics, ran on a multiuser system,
and allowed many people to access the same data. Documentation of the RPC project (concept) Most of the docum
entation is available on VMS, with the two principle manuals being stored in the CERNDOC system. 1) includes: The
VAX/NOTES conference VXCERN::RPC 2) includes: Test and Example suite 3) includes: RPC BUG LISTS 4) includes: RPC
System: Implementation Guide Information for maintenance, porting, etc. 5) includes: Suggested Development Strateg
y for RPC Applications 6) includes: "Notes on RPC", Draft 1, 20 feb 86 7) includes: "Notes on Proposed RPC Develop
ment" 18 Feb 86 8) includes: RPC User Manual How to build and run a distributed system. 9) includes: Draft Speci
fications and Implementation Notes 10) includes: The RPC HELP facility 11) describes: THE REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL PRO
JECT in DD/OC Help Display Select Back Quit Mark Goto_mark Link Add Edit Fig 2. A screen in an Enquire scheme. This
example is basically a list, so the list of links is more important than the text on the node itself. Note that each li
nk has a type ("includes" for example) and may also have comment associated with it. (The bottom line is a menu ba
r.) Soon after my re-arrival at CERN in the DD division, I found that the environment was similar to that in PS, and
I missed Enquire. I therefore produced a version for the VMS, and have used it to keep track of projects, people, gr
oups, experiments, software modules and hardware devices with which I have worked. I have found it personally ve
ry useful. I have made no effort to make it suitable for general consumption, but have found that a few people
have successfully used it to browse through the projects and find out all sorts of things of their own accor
d. Hot spots Meanwhile, several programs have been made exploring these ideas, both commercially and academ
ically. Most of them use "hot spots" in documents, like icons, or highlighted phrases, as sensitive areas. touchi
ng a hot spot with a mouse brings up the relevant information, or expands the text on the screen to include it.
Imagine, then, the references in this document, all being associated with the network address of the thing to whi
ch they referred, so that while reading this document you could skip to them with a click of the mouse. "Hypertex
t" is a term coined in the 1950s by Ted Nelson [...], which has become popular for these systems, although it is us
ed to embrace two different ideas. One idea (which is relevant to this problem) is the concept: "Hypertext": Human-
readable information linked together in an unconstrained way. The other idea, which is independent and largely
a question of technology and time, is of multimedia documents which include graphics, speech and video. I will not
discuss this latter aspect further here, although I will use the word "Hypermedia" to indicate that one is not boun
d to text. It has been difficult to assess the effect of a large hypermedia system on an organisation, often becau
se these systems never had seriously large-scale use. For this reason, we require large amounts of existing infor
mation should be accessible using any new information management system.A solution: Hypertext Personal Experi
ence with Hypertext In 1980, I wrote a program for keeping track of software with which I was involved in the PS co
ntrol system. Called Enquire, it allowed one to store snippets of information, and to link related pieces together
in any way. To find information, one progressed via the links from one sheet to another, rather like in the old com
puter game "adventure". I used this for my personal record of people and modules. It was similar to the application
Hypercard produced more recently by Apple for the Macintosh. A difference was that Enquire, although lacking the
fancy graphics, ran on a multiuser system, and allowed many people to access the same data. Documentation of the
RPC project (concept) Most of the documentation is available on VMS, with the two principle manuals being stored
in the CERNDOC system. 1) includes: The VAX/NOTES conference VXCERN::RPC 2) includes: Test and Example suite 3) inc
ludes: RPC BUG LISTS 4) includes: RPC System: Implementation Guide Information for maintenance, porting, etc. 5) incl