kfr@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Karl F. Ruehr) (09/28/88)
I'm looking for info on Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS called HyperCode;
specifically, has anyone seen it (at the Apple Developers' Conference)?
Anyone know how to contact him?
For those who didn't read it in MacWeek, there was a short article on
pp. 1 & 9 describing the OS--Rundgren (yes, THAT Todd Rundgren) is
currently negotiating with some software publishers to get it marketed
(this may mean no easy access to specifics on the beast itself).
The idea behind the system is lots-of-little-tools for different kinds
of data (graphics, text, whatever), plus a context-sensitive shell to give
you acces to them; documents are collections of different kinds of data
instead of monolithic entities as in the Mac OS. I recall seeing
something a few years back called "Alisa" (sp? name?) that was similar
in conception. The name implies presence of "hyper"-links.
There's a quote from Rundgren in the article painting a vision (similar
to that pushed by XCMD afficianados) of pick-and-choose flexible
upgrading through inexpensive, small tools for special purposes, etc.
And here I thought this guy just did guitars, vocals, composition and
production--who'd have thought he did keyboards, too? :-)
-- Fritz Ruehr "I can't see the lines
kfr@zippy.eecs.umich.edu I used to think I could read between"
(313) 668-8940 -- Enoedc@aeras.UUCP (news guest account) (09/30/88)
In article <1200@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> kfr@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Karl F. Ruehr) writes: > > And here I thought this guy just did guitars, vocals, composition and >production--who'd have thought he did keyboards, too? :-) Todd has been into programming for MANY years. He had one of the original commodore PET machines. I visited him in Woodstock a number of years ago. His buddy and keyboardist Roger Powell took me to Todd's place to see some graphics things he was working on. I was only there a few hours though... Todd was sort of "hung over" from his birthday party the previous night. Todd wrote a "paint" program for the Apple][ called the Utopia Graphics Tablet System. Apple marketed it for a number of months with some success... I knew that Todd was a brilliant programmer, but I'm as suprised as you are to hear that he WROTE an operating system. Sheesh, talk about talent... -edc-