Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!lorrie.atmos.washington.edu!jeff From: jeff@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT high speed modem Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 88 00:54:18 GMT References: <1583@oakhill.UUCP> <19006@apple.Apple.COM> <3344@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu Distribution: na Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 15 In-reply-to: ns@cat.cmu.edu's message of 19 Oct 88 02:59:22 GMT In article <3344@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) writes: >The "compleate" academic computer of the 1990's _must_ be able to handle ^^^^^^^^ >NTSC<->B&W<->RGB conversions in a hassle-free (and hopefully, standardized) >manner, in order to be the workstation of choice for those of us working on >integrated computer/video applications...Who knows, perhaps an EditDroid lurks >within the dark confines of the Cube! 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 :-( ).