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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Multimedia News (Re: Electronic Newspapers)
Message-ID: <499@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 16:15:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 10 May 89 12:58:50 GMT

In article <4131@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

   > 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.


Yes Yes Yes, and it will happen but not with computers designed almost
10 years ago (over 5 at least).  Think in terms of tomorrows
computers.  Think about something like a NeXT with more memory for
real cheap.  Thats the minimum necessary.  It will happen.  Wait and
see.

"Cel-e-brate, the being right, of the doing right, of your heart"
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