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Xanadu & Udanax History |
See also Press Coverage of Xanadu.
History of the Xanadu® Projects
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Nelson's 1982 Datamation article A New Home for the Mind.
Who?
Many people made many contributions over the years. Here we attempt to give credit for the major conceptual or technical contributions to Udanax Green & Gold, but the long years make memory unreliable. If you know of a contribution you feel we should have included, please let us know. We probably just forgot, and you have our apologies. (We also intend to acknowledge other forms of contribution eventually.)
Udanax Green, in approximate chronological order:
The Hypertext Concept
Vannevar Bush -- 1945
The Xanadu Hypertext Concepts
Ted Nelson -- 1963 on.
Also of influence was Doug Engelbart's Augment System -- 1963 on.
The Model-T Enfilade
Ted Nelson, John Ridgeway, Cal Daniels -- 1972
Transclusion by Subtree Sharing & I vs. V
Bill Barus -- 1977 (Is this right?)
General Enfilade Theory & many new enfilades
Mark S. Miller, Stuart Grace (then Stuart Greene) -- 1979
Tumbler Addressing and Arithmetic, Udanax Green Architecture
Roger Gregory, Mark S. Miller -- 1980
Construction of Udanax Green
Roger Gregory, Mark S. Miller, Eric Hill, Roland King -- 1980 - 1988
Early Udanax Green Frontends
Roger Gregory, John Walker -- 1988.
The Pyxi Frontend
Ka Ping Yee -- 1999
Udanax Gold, in approximate chronological order:
The Ent
K. Eric Drexler -- 1983
Overall Udanax Gold Architecture
Mark S. Miller, E. Dean Tribble, Ravi Pandya -- 1988 - 1992
Major architectural contributions by Michael McClary & K. Eric Drexler -- 1988 - 1992
Coordinate Space System & The Reformulation of General Enfilade Theory
Ravi Pandya, E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller
Canopies
E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Ravi Pandya, Michael McClary
Detectors
Marc Stiegler, Ravi Pandya, E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller
Smalltalk to C++ Translator
E. Dean Tribble, Roland King -- 1989 -- 1992
Incremental Generational Garbage Collector
Eric Hill, E. Dean Tribble, Roger Gregory, Keith Henson -- 1988 - 1994
Persistent Object System
E. Dean Tribble, Michael McClary
Remote Messaging with Message Pipelining
Mark S. Miller, E. Dean Tribble, Ravi Pandya
Early Udanax Gold Frontends
Marc Stiegler, Hugh Hoover, Roger Gregory
Rob Jellinghaus, E. Dean Tribble, Eric Hill
Systems Inspired by Xanadu®
The Web
The most important of the systems inspired (or partially inspired) by Xanadu® is, obviously, the World Wide Web -- the medium on which you are presently reading these very pages. The 1989 document Information Management: A Proposal is one of Tim Berners Lee's earliest records of the birth of the web.
