[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Is Hypercard Hypertext

jon@flinders.cs.flinders.oz (Jon Vahlberg) (02/15/90)

  This is probably an old question but I would like some opinions on
the following question:

 Is hypercard hypertext?

In a conference in 1987, the general consensus of the people
attending was that hypercard was not '"really" hypertext
because of its limited possibilities for associating links
with words'. This seems a bit of a half answer.
  Yet to my knowledge there is no conclusive definite reasoning
as to if it is or isn't. Opinions, please.

Jon.

jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (02/17/90)

In article <312@flinders.cs.flinders.oz> jon@flinders.cs.flinders.oz
(Jon Vahlberg) writes:
> Is hypercard hypertext?

The best answer I've heard to this is that HyperCard is a development
system that lets you author a hypertext application. Not all HyperCard
stacks are hypertexts by any means.
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