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AUGMENT / NLS User Documentation 0

AUGMENT is an integrated collaborative hypertext information system developed originally as NLS in Doug Engelbart's Augmentation Resources Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), and later commercialized as AUGMENT at Tymshare Inc.'s Office Automation Division. See also About Augment/NLS and other Historic Firsts, as well as our current HyperScope and Engelbart Academy initiatives.

AUGMENT 2

About AUGMENT 2a

AUGMENT - An Integrated Office Information System (44644,) 1978
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader

AUGMENT Applications and Features (75436,) 1982
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AUGMENT Office Automation by the hour 1980 Tymshare
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Tymshare's Augment - Heralding a New Era, by Patricia Seybold, October 1978, in The Seybold Report on Word Processing, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 1-16.
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2a4

Interactive Tutor Files 2b

AUGMENT Tutor - (1/4) 1980s
The first of several self-guided hands-on tutorials.
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2b1

AUGMENT Tutor2 - (2/4) 1980s
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AUGMENT Tutor3 - (3/4) 1980s
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AUGMENT Tutor4 - (4/4) 1980s
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Quick Reference Cards 2c

AUGMENT Quick Reference Pocket Card - (75455,) 1981
A distillation of commands, address elements, and viewspecs.
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2c1

AUGMENT Viewspecs Mouse and Keyset - (29988,) 1978
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2b4

AUGMENT Textbook - Beginners 2d

AUGMENT Textbook - Beginners - 1980
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CONTENTS 2d2

Introduction to the AUGMENT Textbook Series - (48743,) 1980
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Introduction to AUGMENT - (48746,) 1980
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Beginning Use of AUGMENT - (48747,) 1980
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Starting and Ending an AUGMENT Work Session - ARPANET - (48744,) 1980
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Writing and Reading an Organized File - (48749,) 1982
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Working With Tables - A Beginning Lesson - (75631,) 1981
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2d8

Getting Help - (74262,) 1980
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2d9

The AUGMENT 1250 Display Terminal Users' Guide - How to Install and Use It - (76244,) 1982
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2d10

AUGMENT Textbook - Intermediate 2e

AUGMENT Applications and Features (75436,) 1982
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2e1

Writing and Reading a Structured File - (71312,)
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2e2

EDITING: An Intermediate Lesson - 1978
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VIEWING: An Intermediate Lesson - (71313,) 1978
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Beginning Use of AUGMENT on a Typewriter Terminal - (75950,) 1981
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AUGMENT Vocabulary - (71337,) 1978
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Getting Help -
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AUGMENT Subsystems 2f

For an overview of all the AUGMENT subsystems, see Section 3 of AUGMENT Applications and Features. 2f1

MiniBASE User's Guide - (103728,) 1987
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Working With Tables - A Beginning Lesson - (75631,) 1981 [from Textbook above]
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Running a Command Sequence: An Introduction - 1982
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Compose Subsystem Reference - 1982
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The Output Processor Users Guide - (71537,) 1979
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2f1

The AUGMENT Mail Users' Guide - (103481,) 1983
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2f1

Advanced Techniques for Display Users of AUGMENT Mail - (103459,) 1983
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AUGMENT Mail Quick Reference Card - (103464,) 1983
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2f1

RETRIEVE Beginners' Guide -
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AUGMENT Programmers' Guide - (132817,)
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2f1

AUGMENT Expeditions 2g

In the mid-1990s Doug Engelbart and Christina Engelbart presented two week-long "Expeditions" offering in-depth hands-on exploration, and individual and team usage of the AUGMENT System. Hoping to find the extensive course outline to post here, meantime here is an overview description:

Presenting AN EXPEDITION Into the frontiers of the Knowledge Age - 1997
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More to come...

AUGMENT Hardware 2h

The AUGMENT 1250 Display Terminal Users' Guide - How to Install and Use It - (76244,) YEAR
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AUGMENT Engine - server for customer organizations - 1983
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AUGMENT Developers 2i

The AUGMENT File System - 1981
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Differences Between NLS 8.5 and Augment - 1981
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AUGMENT Programmers' Guide - (132817,)
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 2i3

Find the bulk of developers' documentation below under NLS Developers, most of which also apply to AUGMENT developers. 2g1

NLS 3

About NLS 3a

Seminar on the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - (35672,) 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3a1

Investments in Tomorrow - "Computer Invades Executive Suite" - Issue 14 | Winter 1975
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Executive Information Tools - (34111,) 1975
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3a1

Introduction to Document Production Through NLS - 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Full Spread | 3-Panel Format 3a1

NLS User Guides 3b

Course Outline: Introduction to the Display On Line System (DNLS) - (33991,) 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3b1

NLS User Training Guide - "A Self Teaching Introduction to the oNLine System" - (29174,) 1978
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3b2

NLS Textbook (ISI) - 1980
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NLS-8 Command Summary - (24831,) 1975
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NLS-8 Glossary - (22132,) 1975
Update 1979 hardcopy available.
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Introduction to Document Production Through NLS - 1977
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Full Spread | 3-Panel Format 3a6

Output Processor Users' Guide - (32812,) 1975
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3b7

Format Library - (25764,) 1975
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3b8

Quick Reference Cards 3c

Cue Card (micro) - Viewspecs | Mouse Buttons + Keyset Chart - 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3c1

TNLS Quick Reference Card - (25765,) 1975
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3c1

NLS Developers 3d

An Implementation Overview - 1968
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Demo of NLS Implementation 3d1

NLS Programmers' Guide - (34210,) 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3d2

Programmers' Information - 1977
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NLS System Guide - 1969
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The NLS File System - (27292,) 1976
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Syntax of NLS Commands: New Command Language - 1974
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The Procedure Call Protocol - (24590,) 1974
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Frontend System Documentation - (28745,) 1977
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A Guide to the Command Meta Language and the Command Language Interpreter - (28744,) 1977
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The Design and Implementation of DAD - A Muktiprocess, multimachine, multilanguage Interactive Debugger - (29079,) 1977
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User's Guide to DAD - (29116,) 1977
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3d11

Cue Card: DAD and Address List Terminators - 1976
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3d12

NLS Key Milestones 3e

NLS at key points in time: 1965 first published release, operating on single-user computer with one display workstation, used for system development and to evaluate pointing devices when the Mouse was invented; 1968 now on multi-user SDS-940, offering full engineering team support, used to power the 1968 Mother of All Demos and its 1969 Demo Sequel; 1969 now on the ARPANET available network wide; 1972 participating in ARPA's debut of the ARPANET and the NIC is launched, NLS now includes the library facility called the Journal; 1974 serving a community of user organizations and their liaisons (KWAC); 1978 transitions to commercial system under the name AUGMENT at Tymshare, Inc. 2g1

User's Guide - A Man-Machine Information System - 1965
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Final Report 3e1

User's Guide - 1968
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Chapterized Demo | Project Description 3e2

NLS User's Guide: Man-Machine Information System - 1969
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader | Chapterized Demo 3e3

DNLS Preliminary Reference Guide - (10703,) 1972
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3e4

Knowledge Workshop Development - Final Report - (22133,) 1974
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3e5

Tymshare's Augment - Heralding a New Era - 1978 by Patricia Seybold
Available Formats: HTML | PDF | eReader 3e6

ARC Proposals and Contract Reports 3f

Listing of ARC Proposal Titles - curated at Computer History Museum's Archive Center 3f1

Listing of ARC Contracts and Deliverable Reports - curated at Computer History Museum's Archive Center 3f2