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- From: beverins@aol.com (B E Verins)
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- Subject: Re: History of Computing at the Smithsonian
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 17:55:19 -0500
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- Nathaniel Henderson pointed out:
-
- >>For presentations. The idea being that 29-inch monitors are obscenely
- expensive, but 29-inch TVs aren't. Anybody using a TV as their standard
- display should do themselves a huge favor and get a monitor.>>
-
- Ah, I see. You equate Mulitmedia as those little CDROMs you can get.
- Certainly, you would want to play those on a computer with a decent
- monitor. Personal Multimedia (buzzword alert!)
-
- The multimedia that the original poster intended was of the presentation
- variety, I do believe. Nevertheless, Smithsonian seems to have done an
- injustice to historical records by omitting a computer that was, for all
- intents and purposes, the FIRST COMPUTER TO HAVE such things as easy to
- use multitasking, multimedia, attachment to TV, animation, etc. You could
- make the argument that the Atari 2600 could do all that - but you would be
- missing the point somewhat, no?
-
- As for multimedia not requiring multitasking..... Why is it that SCALA has
- to have its own mini-OS ( which offers multitasking) to run on an Intel
- machine (what I've read, anyway).? Might there be a need for multitasking
- that you do not see?
-
- -----------------> RICHARD HAGEN <------------------
- ... "Cower beneath my multitasking MIGHT!!! " ...
-