Today, it comes in many incompatible forms such as computer databases, e-mail, faxes, and scanned images. Digital Equipment Corporation wanted a breakthrough computer application that would retain the simplicity and consistency of paper in the context of a computer-based office. The breakthrough had to support all types of electronic information in a consistent way, and users had to be able to work with hundreds of documents at once.
People can easily view, organize, move, annotate, and search for a variety of documents.
Further, they can deal simultaneously with hundreds of documents, moving them forwards or backwards in space.