You should be able to answer each of the following questions.
- Why should we bother with hypertext when we have search
systems, menu systems, and editors?
- What is the essense of hypertext - from the perspectives of:
document modeling and representation, user manipulation of texts,
document interchange, electronic publishing, and computer interface
work?
- What are some of the challenges regarding designing hyperbases
so that the interfaces are readily usable?
- What are anchors, links and webs and how do they relate to each
other and to implementation of hypertext systems and services?
- What type of DataBase Management System is used in
Intermedia, and why? Why might an object-oriented DBMS be better?
- What changes to operating systems and interface systems should
be made so that ubiquitous hypertext access is supported, across wide
area networks and across all applications on a computer system?