About the Wang '669 patent

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sat Apr 25 02:29:40 1998

At 09:50 PM 24-04-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:

>It sounds like the Wang patent basically covers rendering formatted
>information on a terminal that was acquired via a remote connection. So,
>what was the closest thing to a Web browser before 1993? GRiD fan that I
>am, I vote for the 1982 GRiD/OS and remote GRiDCentral. GRiD/OS had a
>form and menu based OS interface and actions were based on the file type
>and extension. GRiDCentral (and the LAN-based GRiDServer) basically
>distributed this menu-based filesystem over a remote connection.

How about the CAI system that CDC had (I can't remember the name off hand
at the moment - I think my brain is broken - I couldn't even remember the
brand name of some wine I wanted to buy yesterday... Will chewing on a
floppy disk or two improve things :-). From my limited exposure it's likely
that the CDC thingy :-) had a browser style interface.

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