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The spec was kept proprietary and patented until about 2019. All you had before that was ramblings by an eccentric character who was 100% sure he was correct.

The spec was kept proprietary and patented until about 2019. All you had before that was ramblings by an eccentric character who was 100% sure he was correct. https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.html https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hy... Now that we can actually read it, it's pretty much Urbit levels of kookiness all over. There's implementations. They're not very useful to a layperson. http://www.open.xanadu.com/ http://www.open.xanadu.com/

siramikvarze 12d ago
> Bottom crums in the granfilade represent atoms. Atoms come in two varieties: characters and orgls. Character bottom crums are stored as spans of characters, rather than individual bytes. These consist of a pointer to a block of physical storage, either in core or on disk, containing the bytes themselves, and an (integer) length, telling the number of bytes in the block. Since each of these bytes has an implicit wid of 0.0.0.0.1, the character span has a wid of 0.0.0.0.〈number of characters in the span〉. Orgl bottom crums are stored in a similar fashion, but instead of literal data bytes, pointers to the fulcrums of orgls (poomfilades) are stored. Was this jargon normal in 1984 because we hadn't invented words like "addresses" and "structs" yet?