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- From: SJC@UVMVM.BITNET (Steve Cavrak)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Subject: The Gopher Universe: Was Justification for CWIS
- Message-ID: <CWIS-L%92111210285021@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 15:41:50 GMT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- --- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:55:56 PST
- --- From: "(Steve Cook x4753)" <cook@bluemoon.HUB.UCSB.EDU>
- --- Subject: Re: Justification for CWIS
-
- In fact, this is what a gopher server on the back end of a
- Macintosh can do today. So it is possible to publish a local
- CWIS, and connect to others everywhere with gopher.
-
- Steve Cook; College of Letters and Science; UC Santa Barbara
-
- --- From: Shyela Aberman <litbu741@vader.cc.emory.edu>
- --- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:30:28 EST
-
- Or, to put in a more interesting way, I on my Macintosh Plus
- (hypothetical, as I'm on an SE/30) could connect to, oh, say
- Tokyo University and peruse some of their papers on quantum
- physics, at the same time searching through Harvard's name
- server (or program of comparable function) for that guy named
- Smith I met last year at the Conference in Boulder, etc.
-
- Sounds kind of like an Apple, Inc. commercial I saw a while
- ago...all it takes is more CWIS's....and more bandwidth.
-
- Shy Aberman
- (litbu741@vader.cc.emory.edu)
-
- ---
- I think it's more convoluted -- while you are reading the papers
- on quantum mechanics on that machine in Tokyo, your colleague in
- St. Martins is viewing meeting notes you are editing stored in another
- folder in your SE.
-
- Yes, Gopher does contain a lot of the ideas presented in the Apple
- Knowledge Navigator commercial. Or in Ted Nelson's The Literary
- Machine.
-
- In this model, the network is desktop-to-desktop, or notebook-to-
- notebook, or pocket organizer to pocket organizer. It leads to a
- shift from Campus Wide INFORMATION SYSTEMS to CAMPUS WIDE Information
- System. Everybody becomes an information provider; every desk
- becoms a file server.
-
- Ciao
- Steve
-