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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Multimedia News (Re: Electronic Newspapers)
Message-ID: <4131@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 May 89 12:58:50 GMT
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Organization: Xenix Support
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> Can a PC AT process a newspaper?

Surely. I'm sure an Amiga could. It's not that much more powerful... the
main advantage it has is the richness of the standard audiovisual tools. If
you don't try to shove too many pixels around all at once, and don't
overwhelm the CGA display, the PC should do just fine.

Why stop at video? How about sampled sounds? Music? Multimedia news.

> How do you deal with different terminal types?

Organise the news interactively. There's no point staying with a static
display on a dynamic device. Hypertext-type links. Multimedia news.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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