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- From: henke@hv.se (Henrik Wetterstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: History of Computing at the Smithsonian
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 23:20:57 GMT
- Organization: VΣxj÷ university
- Message-ID: <4g5nsp$8pr@eken.hv.se>
- References: <4g1klf$es4@daily-planet.nodak.edu>
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- In article <4g1klf$es4@daily-planet.nodak.edu>, nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:
- :Richard P. O'Sullivan (rosully@aww.com) wrote:
- :
- :: The Amiga architecture in 1985 defined today's standard for the
- :: multi-media computer: pre-emptive multi-tasking, deep color palette,
- :: built-in audio, and NTSC/PAL compatibility for television. Today, the Amiga
- :: 4000 is widely used in television and studio productions.
- :
- : What does multitasking of ANY sort have to do with multimedia? Or
- :built-in audio? A card is just as real a solution. DEEP color palette?
- :A rather generous definition of 'deep' I think.
- : Output to a TV? Again, what does this have to do with multimedia?
- :You want good multimedia, find a nice big Trinitron display. Being able
- :to output video to sub-standard devices for vewing isn't exactly a big
- :recomendation.
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- By making a machine so cheap you can afford to put it at MULTIPLE
- places with MULTIPLE presentation medias, such as cheap PAL/NTSC
- video and cheap, builtin audio do I think the word multimedia got
- a big push forward.
- Compare that with the expensivess of a 286:er with gfxcard and a
- expensive montiro, or an even more expensive PAL/NTSC converter.
- Add a load more bucks for a soundcard and maybe even a set of
- speakers, if your monitor didn't have builtin audio.
- Back in 1985 was it EGA the ordinary PC got, the Amiga of
- the same age could do 4096 colors. Quite a difference in
- color depth, eh?
- Separate cards for the machine, makes it more extendible, but
- also more expensive. Card slots, bigger box, heavier powersupply
- do cost money.
- The multitasking made it possible to use the same machine for
- more than one application simultanously. Thus, it could both
- show some video, run a synchronization program for video
- mixing, format a disk to store down some data at the same time.
- Even if the multitasking isn't really a must for multimedia,
- is for sure good to have around. If not could it distribute
- some common information between several presentation nodes
- in a network in the background.
- If your definition of multimedia isn't to put multiple medias
- into multiple places, then you completely missed the MM train.
- Maybe you will catch up with the next train...
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- /Henrik
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