Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Wayne Hamilton Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Canadian Lecture Series Message-ID: <2390@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Dec 89 05:00:20 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 591, message 5 of 8 > Now, thanks to a revolutionary mix of computer and > communications technologies known as a system for Computer Supported > Cooperative Work (CSCW), this is no longer necessary. A single command > to his computer causes it to dial and establish a connection with his > accountant's computer. Simultaneously, the two are placed in telephone ...... > Available today? No. Science fiction? Definitely not. All the > individual elements needed to paint this picture are technically > feasible today. Given the anticipated developments in technology and ....... With the exception of the windowed video images, we were doing all that on tenex systems back in 1974! even with the shift to PCs, it sounds like Carbon Copy (or one of the work-alikes) and a seperate voice line. what's so revolutionary about it? Wayne Hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!osiris!hamilton I'net: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Lowtek: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801; (217)384-4310(voice), -4311(BBS) , ,