Re: [NTLK] trotter

From: richard_at_cyberphotographer.com
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 10:54:37 EDT


>Who knows, maybe Open Doc could be come a reality. Open Doc, in concept
>and principle, was really cool...

I thought the really cool thing about OpenDoc was not so much the
portability of documents which can be achieved by not using closed
format documents (no matter how many other people do), but rather
that since the document only booted required application code
fragments ('parts') you didn't have to open 20MB of application code
in order to change a piece of text from italic to bold. This meant
that you didn't need acres of RAM, an unnecessarily cluttered
interface, or a Unix style virtual memory page system to get on with
real work in real time. OpenDoc could have enabled us to use very
humble hardware to edit any document and as such it would have had
wonderful implications for the handheld market.

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