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- B E Verins (beverins@aol.com) wrote:
- : 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.>>
-
- : 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?
-
- Attachment to a TV? Heck, my '83(?) Apple IIc does that. :-) Matter
- of fact, video output to TVs was fairly common on early (read: primative)
- computers. Hmm.... My Apple IIc does animations. It does sound. It
- outputs to TV. And it predates the Amiga if I'm not mistaken. :-) But
- OOPS! It doesn't multitask, and as any fanatical Amigan with nothing else
- left to recomend their platform knows, multitasking isn't just
- something--it's the ONLY thing. ;-)
-
- : 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?
-
- Nope. (The arrogance!) ;-) Multitasking is NOT needed for
- multimedia. Never has been, never will be. (You will note Quicktime is
- manages sound, video, MIDI, text overlays, and sprites simultaniously.)
-