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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minitel in US (Was Re: LA World of Commodore Show)
Message-ID: <8285@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 6 Jun 89 00:17:49 GMT
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in article <867@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, boucher@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Marc Boucher) says:
> 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
> 	Are you sure that they are using Minitel technology? It's more likely
> that their Videotex system is NAPLPS based.

It's Minitel. The reason is cost. Minitel terminals are made by the
millions in France, meaning they're dirt cheap. A SWB person stated
that a fully Americanized Minitel terminal costed less than $100.

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