Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: New Input Devices (in lieu of Keyboards)
Message-ID: <2856@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 23 Jan 89 19:25:49 GMT
References: <8901121714.AA26346@multimax.encore.com> <400011@hpdsla.HP.COM> <13549@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <13549@bellcore.bellcore.com>, duncan@geppetto.ctt.bellcore.com
(Scott Duncan) asks what good it is to let computers accept multimedia
data (voice, imagery, video, music) when it can't really process it very
well...

[pardon if I summarised you badly, but my input device has a broken finger]

One of the things you have to be aware of when you consider how a computer is
to process data is that it's processing it for people to eventually use again.
My experience with a multimedia machine (the Amiga) has been that all sorts
of stuff becomes grist for the mill. All sorts of data... animations, images,
sampled sounds, music, and so on... are floating around. There is a pretty
good standard file format (IFF) for all these things.

I imagine the Mac people have similar experiences with images, drawings, and
so on... the Mac is stronger in those feilds.

So, in practice, it does a lot of good to let your cpu chew on bitplanes and
the like...
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