Software Reviews : Guide Publisher: Ow1 International,Inc.,14218 NE 21st St.,Bellevue,WA 98007 (telephone: [phone]) Year of Publication: 1986 Materials: Two disks (master disk and examples disk),198-page manual Price: $134.95 Machine Specificity: Apple Macintosh System Requirements: Apple Macintosh 512K,Plus or XL (second disk drive recommended) Effectiveness: Fair User-Friendliness: Fair Documentation: Fair

Abstract

GUIDE is software for creating, exploring, and using hypertext. It can be used to create electronic documents, which are not limited by the confinements or two-dimensional nature of paper. GUIDE is being promoted as having some of the features of a word processor, an outline processor, and a database manager, but probably it is not a substitute for any of the three. Basically, it should be viewed as an experimental program that can give us some of the feel of hypertext, but with some shortcomings.