Jeff, Jonathan, et al, (01)
I think it's worth doing this face-to-face if possible, and I'd love
to podcast it as well. (02)
-Eugene (03)
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:40:23AM -0800, Jonathan Cheyer wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I know you were one of the software architects during the NLS days. I'm
> not sure when the Augment data structure was first designed, and how
> much it changed over the years from its original implementation.
>
> Could you give me a brief history lesson on who did the original design
> for the Augment data structure? Anything you remember about approximate
> year and names of people involved would be very useful.
>
> (I do have some of the L10 code from within Augment itself and have
> started looking through the code.)
>
> Among the documents I skimmed through from the CD that you gave me, I
> came across a section that is entitled "AHI Data Structure, A.M. 276
> Class Notes". It is about 20 pages long. No author and no date are
> mentioned. Do you know what the A.M. initials are? I realize that AHI
> stands for "Augmented Human Intellect" and was part of the AHIRC before
> it was renamed ARC. That seems to suggest that this document was written
> no later than 1968-9. According to this interview that Doug gave in
> 1987, AHIRC was renamed ARC at around that time.
>
>http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/engelbart/main3-ntb.html
>
> If you know of any other technical documents that describe the data
> structure, especially if they are later documents and the details have
> changed, I would appreciate it if you could point me to them.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> >Doug and Jeff,
> >
> >Jon has been trying to decode the Augment file structure. He's gotten
> >pretty far, but there are still some niggly baffling details. Is
> >there someone we can talk to who can help explain some of the details
> >without Jon having to reverse engineer everything himself?
> >
> >-Eugene
> >
>
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