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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <2335@titan.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 10 May 89 23:11:28 GMT
References: <8905031352.AA16555@mica.berkeley.edu> <174@marvin.moncam.co.uk> <2329@titan.sw.mcc.com> <4131@ficc.uu.net>
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)

In article <4131@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Can a PC AT process a newspaper?
>
>Surely. I'm sure an Amiga could...  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.

I was thinking more of the data-processing end of things.  If one had a mass
of bulk data, say 20Mbytes, to match against a user profile in an interesting
way, how long would the PC have to crunch?  Not terribly long, if the bulk
data was arranged and indexed in some way that would make the profile matching
trivial.  Perhaps the continuous cable-TV transmission is the way to go.

Bill