Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cat.cmu.edu!ns From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT high speed modem Message-ID: <3365@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Oct 88 04:07:10 GMT References: <1583@oakhill.UUCP> <19006@apple.Apple.COM> <3344@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Distribution: na Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 29 In article jeff@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) writes: ... > >What percentage of the NeXT machine's intended audience do you suppose are >working on integrated computer/video applications? Certainly not most. Those >who want it can certainly buy a card to plug in to their cube and not burden >all others with the cost of supporting such things can they not? > >We can only hope that the makers of said card took the time to make it hassle >free for end-users (But they if they don't :-( ). ...points well taken; but judging from the work of Project Athena, efforts at standardizing handling of video windows under X, Bellcore's demo video conferencing between workstations, the increasing computerization of video production, etc that the integration of computing (and image-processing) power and video will definitely become more desirable to more users, certainly in the 1990s. I just hope that NeXT will address this when they announce their color boards, perhaps putting an NTSC<->RGB encoder/decoder into a gate array. :-) -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University