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- From: greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.bbs
- Subject: BBS Standards Comittee and Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.124506.1876@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 17:45:05 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- Well, while you people are forming your committee; one thing I'd like to see
- formed as some sort of standard is an ADEQUATE graphics/windowing systems for
- BBSes and low-bandwidth systems. IE, something that could actually work over
- 2400 baud (or maybe even 9600, since 2400 is probably headed the way of the 300
- baud modem...)
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- I'm tired of being restricted in not being able to utilize graphics and meeses
- (plural of mouse) (*my* plural of mouse :-) on the various platforms that exist
- out there, and I don't relish the idea of making a front end for all those
- bloody platforms.
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- Just to reiterate, the key is low-bandwidth... I'll save my X-Windows ideas for
- Ethernets and 56k+...
-
- Andy
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