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From: boucher@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Marc Boucher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minitel in US (Was Re: LA World of Commodore Show)
Keywords: naplps, minitel, alex
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Date: 4 Jun 89 20:44:31 GMT
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In article <686@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:

>U.S. Videotel and Southwestern Bell Telephone are in a joint venture
>to bring Minitel to America under a new name.  They hope to have
>60K subscribers in Houston w/in a year.  In Houston, you have
>an option of using the Minitel terminal (for those people without
>a computer -- a single tasking computer is like having no computer :-)
>or getting software for your IBM or MacIntosh.

	Are you sure that they are using Minitel technology? It's more likely
that their Videotex system is NAPLPS based.
	BTW, The Amiga makes a great NAPLPS terminal, because of its color and
resolution. For further info, e-mail me, or roys@iro.umontreal.ca
(Sebastien Roy), who is the principal author of the Amiga naplps emulator.
 
>J. Eric Townsend

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