zz: The Plan for ZigZag (5)-- THE BIG STEPS

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Andrew and Bek and EVerybody:

So much (last memo, #4) for the relatively small
 and incremental changes features.

Here are the radical ones.

I look forward to discussing these with you all.

(Phew.) Ted

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MAJOR CHANGES, IN PROBABLE ORDER 

Netscape/Web Push interface?  This will of course look EXTREMELY different
from what we have now. Possibly using--
- Javascript?
- Frames? 
- Tables? 
- Single page generation with fixed-width characters

IF THAT DOES NOT WORK, SOME PC INTERFACE,
especially / perhaps "Windows console" to look substantially like the
present Curses interface.  

MOUNTABLE FILESYSTEM, IF WITHIN REACH THIS SUMMER --
- XEFR(tm)-- Xanadu Enhanced File Repository-- "Zephyr, a breath of fresh
air."  A mountable file system using ZigZag and Primedia.
- This may run either on a second machine (probably easier to develop) or
on the X86 itself.  
- OBJECTIVE: to be able to demonstrate this to [name omitted] in
Switzerland in September, for possible backing.  

CELL TRANSPORTABILITY
- MIME type for a cell?
- EACH CELL KNOWS ITS PROCESSOR OF ORIGIN.

ZZSHELL
- Store Unix commands in ZZ cells
- Can operate on a list of operands (needs Chug or Shear)
- Get results in cells
- Get error mesages incells.

AUDIO RECORD AND PLAY.  

VIDEO RECORD AND PLAY.  

DICTRON(tm).  (This will be a simple application using ZZ cells and audio
primedia.)


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CLASS PROJECTS 
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ZZMAIL will be a class project for the fall, I hope employing the mountable
file system ZEFR.


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SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF VISUALIZABLE PARALLELISM--
- Multiprocessor ZZ
- Posix Threads ZZ
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