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:zz: The Plan for ZigZag (5)-- THE BIG STEPS
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- Subject: :zz: The Plan for ZigZag (5)-- THE BIG STEPS
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:28:10 +0900
- Cc: ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Reply-to: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
Dear Andrew and Bek and EVerybody:
So much (last memo, #4) for the relatively small
and incremental changes features.
Here are the radical ones.
I look forward to discussing these with you all.
(Phew.) Ted
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MAJOR CHANGES, IN PROBABLE ORDER
Netscape/Web Push interface? This will of course look EXTREMELY different
from what we have now. Possibly using--
- Javascript?
- Frames?
- Tables?
- Single page generation with fixed-width characters
IF THAT DOES NOT WORK, SOME PC INTERFACE,
especially / perhaps "Windows console" to look substantially like the
present Curses interface.
MOUNTABLE FILESYSTEM, IF WITHIN REACH THIS SUMMER --
- XEFR(tm)-- Xanadu Enhanced File Repository-- "Zephyr, a breath of fresh
air." A mountable file system using ZigZag and Primedia.
- This may run either on a second machine (probably easier to develop) or
on the X86 itself.
- OBJECTIVE: to be able to demonstrate this to [name omitted] in
Switzerland in September, for possible backing.
CELL TRANSPORTABILITY
- MIME type for a cell?
- EACH CELL KNOWS ITS PROCESSOR OF ORIGIN.
ZZSHELL
- Store Unix commands in ZZ cells
- Can operate on a list of operands (needs Chug or Shear)
- Get results in cells
- Get error mesages incells.
AUDIO RECORD AND PLAY.
VIDEO RECORD AND PLAY.
DICTRON(tm). (This will be a simple application using ZZ cells and audio
primedia.)
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CLASS PROJECTS
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ZZMAIL will be a class project for the fall, I hope employing the mountable
file system ZEFR.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF VISUALIZABLE PARALLELISM--
- Multiprocessor ZZ
- Posix Threads ZZ
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Theodor Holm Nelson, Visiting Professor of Environmental Information
Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Fujisawa, Japan
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/ PERMANENT E-MAIL: ted@xxxxxxxxxx
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