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- From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: History of Computing at the Smithsonian
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 17:40:18 PST
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : S.E. Morris (fish@csc.liv.ac.uk) wrote:
- : : >
- : : > 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.
- : : >
- : : Multimedia: The ability to input/output from a wide range of media.
- : : This, incase you have forgotten, was what the word originally meant
- : : before Uncle Bill Gates decided it was just another buzz-word for CD-ROM.
- :
- : MULTIMEDIA: The combination of several forms of media (text,
- : graphics, sound, video, etc.) into one package. That's what it means in
- : the computer industry in the here and now, whatever it may or may not
- : have meant in some other proffession once upon a time.
- : (And since Apple all but invented multimedia in the computer arena,
- : it's probably one of the few things you can't blame Bill Gates for. :-)
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- Apple invented Multimedia???
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- Multimedia was first used on Amigas.
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