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Electronic Document System

The Electronic Document System (EDS) was an early hypertext system – also known as the Interactive Graphical Documents (IGD) hypermedia system – focused on creation of interactive documents such as equipment repair manuals or computer-aided instruction texts with embedded links and graphics. EDS was a 1978–1981 research project at Brown University by…

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Electronic Document System

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eds hypertext graphic pages buttons page system interactive display documents brown steven feiner andries van dam computer links linking systems

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equipment repair manuals or computer-aided instruction texts with embedded linksinstance offocused on creation of interactive documents0.80text
graphicsinstance offocused on creation of interactive documents0.80text
invoking an animationinstance ofGraphic buttons had programmed behaviors0.80text
linking to another pageinstance ofGraphic buttons had programmed behaviors0.80text
or exposing an additional level of detail.The system had three automatically created navigation aidsinstance ofGraphic buttons had programmed behaviors0.80text
Apple's HyperCardinstance ofThe EDS model prefigured graphic hypertext systems0.80text

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