HC 25 years old today
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Aug 13 08:41:48 EDT 2012
Mark Wieder wrote:
> One of the interesting things Bill Atkinson said this evening is that
> the source code for HyperCard has been donated to the Computer Museum.
> You can download the code for MacPaint and MacDraw which were also
> donated, but the HC source code isn't yet downloadable. Bill was
> optimistically hoping that the 25th anniversary of HyperCard would be
> the impetus for them to make it available, but it hasn't happened yet.
At long last, the secrets of hint bits revealed! :)
I suspect that's a lightweight form of bitmap index, but it'll be
interesting to see how it's done.
If any of you (Mr. Kriesel?) have implemented a bitmap index in an xtalk
I'd be very interested to see how you did it.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_index>
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