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From: JAGBDED%PANAM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu
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Subject: Communications of the ACM
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Date: 14 Sep 90 04:12:20 GMT
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   I can't believe what I've just read out of the September issure of the
Communications of the ACM.  They have this massive article on what they are
calling "compuvision" and talk about "teleputers." Listen to this:

      CACM SEP 1990 pg 30:

      Teleputers: Smart TV
      That is the party line according to Intel, IBM, and Microsoft,
      but the entertainment world has also been busy. In the summer of
      1991[!], Sony and Phillips will roll out CD-I, and interactive
      CD player designed to be connected to a tv set. A CD-I player
      contains an optical disc drive, a Motorola 680X0 CPU, and a
      megabyte of memory, but it will be marketed as an enhanced CD
      player, not a computer ...

Haven't these guys heard of CDTV? It is not mentioned at all in this article.
The Amiga 3000 and AmigaVision are briefly mentioned as being the leader in
multimedia technology and summarize the Amigas capabilites in this area. But
the next paragraph starts out with "Tandy has taken a more mainstream approach
than Commodore. They listened to Bill Gates' decription of phase-one multi-
media PC's and built the 2500XL." Then they go on and on about how it can
do almost but not quite everything you wanted in multimedia. This is
unbelievable!

    I have great respect for the ACM, but this time, IMHO, they have over-
looked the reality under their noses.  Speechifying mode off . . .

Jose Aaron Gonzalez
JAGBDED@PANAM
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