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types of hypertext links
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Reference

Nelson, T.H., Literary Machines, edition 87.1, 8480 Fredericksburg #138, San Antonio, TX 78229, Project Xanadu, 1987. Google

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0/5 ;;Quote: new Xanadu units built from new material and material in other units; arbitrary links
1/3 ;;Quote: to create a computing system, define its virtuality--what it ought to be--and make that vision happen
1/22 ;;Quote: complicated ideas evolve slowly with lots of change
1/36 ;;Quote: in Xanadu deterioration with scale is between log and square root; this is offsetted by hardware speedup
2/9 ;;Quote: a literature is a system of interconnected writings; a purpose of Xanadu is to make the interconnections explicit
2/23 ;;Quote: links are part of writing a document; for exploring information
2/24 ;;Quote: a Xanadu link is permanently attached to specific characters
2/29 ;;Quote: a document is anything that someone (its owner) wishes to store
2/42 ;;Quote: Xanadu would have its own copyright convention; agreed upon contractually
2/43 ;;Quote: a paper published under Xanadu should stay published since other users will depend on its accessibility
2/53 ;;Quote: even when distributed, all services should be as if from a centralized data bank
2/57 ;;Quote: interstellar travel will degrade access delays to the centralized data bank
4/16 ;;Quote: an address tumbler creates a place to put things and a way to remember their location
4/17 ;;Quote: hierarchically arranged numbers, allows owner of a number to create related numbers
4/32 ;;Quote: an address tumbler is valid forever
4/43 ;;Quote: every link in Xanadu has a type; which is an arbitrary endset
4/55 ;;Quote: a Xanadu request consists of home-set, from-set, to-set, three-set that describe links
4/58 ;;Quote: a Xanadu link satisfies a link request if it matches each endset
5/8 ;;Quote: main growth of Xanadu network by franchised neighborhood stands; like McDonalds
5/12 ;;Quote: Xanadu royalty based on bytes delivered to users; offsets publication and storage fees


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