Neptune: a hypertext system for CAD applications

  • Authors:
  • Norman Delisle;Mayer Schwartz

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Research Laboratory, Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc, PO Box500, Beaverton, Oregon;Computer Research Laboratory, Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc, PO Box500, Beaverton, Oregon

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Even though many of the essential notions of hypertext were first contained in the description of a “memex,” written by Vannevar Bush in 1945 [Bus45], there are today only a few scattered implementations of hypertext, let alone any serious use of it in a CAD environment. In what follows, we describe what hypertext is all about. We describe a prototype hypertext system, named Neptune, that we have built. We show how it is useful, especially its broad applicability to CAD.