re hyperknowledge in article apr judy uh edu wingo cspara decnet fedex msfc nasa gov writes in article apr embl heidelberg de tuparev embl heidelberg de georg tuparev writes announcement the hyperknowledge project for nextstep i know this is kinda off the subject of sci space but not really i want to answer this for their as well as everyone else s information what these people are proposing by and large already exists and can be purchased today it is called labview by national instruments it is a wonderful object it is a wonderful object oriented graphical programming language some lines deleted i am afraid you are mis directed nextstep is an operating system as opposed to a package i have read a little about it but since steve jobs does not seem to have the marketing capabilities of bill gates my info is limited probably why the far inferior windows nt is going to be more widely distributed but that is another flame ridden story some of the innovative features of nextstep are binary compatibility across platforms eg you can just copy your program from a sparc to a pc and it would run as opposed to buying the version of the package ported to a pc graphical object oriented design its all wsiwig postscript supports parallel hetrogeneous processing and best of all it is based around the mach micro kernel so you can make it look like unix with x or dos or nt or even vms if you feel the need no package out there comes even close i hope people will subscribe to the hyperknowledge project and nextstep finally takes off in my lifetime mail dr ata etemadi blackett laboratory space and atmospheric physics group imperial college of science technology and medicine internet arpanet earn bitnet atae spva ph ic ac uk or ata c mssl ucl ac uk span spva atae or msslc atae
