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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Using the NeXT and Ethernet for real-time voice
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Date: 5 Nov 88 04:49:42 GMT
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jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) writes:
>Um, any two people with phones can call each other up and converse
>with each other.  Without modems.  Right now.  What do the modems add?

Simultaneous voice, pictures, text.  High-bandwidth voice.  Pictures and
text with voice annotations.  Storage of voice messages in a directory
(no more fiddling with tape reels to keep a record of ideas).  People
will come up with more ways to use it once they get their hands/voices/
ears on it.

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