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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
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Date: 10 May 89 00:41:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)

In article <2330.246511CD@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>, Doug.Thompson@p101 (Doug Thompson) writes:
>The news service or newspaper can transmit to you the "news" in exactly 
>thesame way they currently transmit it to whatever typesetting/output 
>device they use to put it on paper.

Well, not really.  Papers like USA Today, that are printed simultaneously
in many parts of the country, use special high-bandwidth channels to transmit
the master copy to the printers.  It would be too expensive for thousands
of channels.  But perhaps a two-stage system would work.

Bill