It may be of interest for being a capability system that was developed to the state where complex applications could be built on it. Some such applications are still running today. Some of the documentation here is very specific to the IBM 370 hardware for which the system was built.
There is a patent (4,584,639) on the factory mechanism described here.
This document was once in IBM's script markup language using hierarchial macros to indicate its structure when printed. Subsequently it was adapted to Doug Englebart's early hypertext system called NLS and later Augment. It then moved to Alan Bomberger's Thinker hypertext system which has many of Augment's functions. Thinker can export HTML files. A program is used to divide these files into hunks convenient for HTTP. Some paragraphs constitute just one link. These were added to limit the maximum size of an HTML file. The data accessed by these links is merely a deeper level of nesting in the original Augment or Thinker version. Other links were transcribed from links in the original material.
(C) Copyright 1981 Agorics, Inc.
While Agorics, Inc. reserves all copyrights, the information
contained in this document is to be considered public
information and is available for use without restriction.
Agorics disclaims any warranty as to the utility,
accuracy or effectiveness of the information contained
in this document and specifically disclaims any liability
for consequential damages that may result directly or indirectly
from use of the information in this document.