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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
- Subject: Re: looking for NAPLPS discussion
- Keywords: NAPLPS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.133600.8958@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:36:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug28.133600.8958
- References: <oeL6PB4w164w@uuisis.isis.org> <l9r47jINNoi5@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
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- shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford) writes:
-
- >In article <oeL6PB4w164w@uuisis.isis.org>, Michael Dillon asked where
- >to find information on NAPLPS, as used in Prodigy, ALEX, and Telidon.
-
- >Back in 1983, BYTE magazine ran a series of four articles about NAPLPS,
- >the "North American Presentation-Level Protocol Syntax", a protocol
- >developed for encoding videotext graphics. The first article was
-
- > "NAPLPS: A New Standard for Text and Graphics,
- > Part 1: Introduction, History, and Structure"
- > by Jim Fleming and William Frezza. BYTE,
- > volume 8, number 2, February 1983, pp. 203-254.
-
- >The articles presented a large amount of detail about how NAPLPS works
- >and how it may be used; the series of articles continued in the March,
- >April, and May 1983 issues of BYTE.
-
- I seem to vaguely recall reading about RCA or someone marketing a
- NAPLPS decoder *chip*. Anybody know anything about this?
-
- I figure that if it *was* done, and wasn't too expensive, it might be
- possible to create a board that plugs into the VGA feature connector
- and provide *fast* NAPLPS with a simple driver. Since there's a lot
- of talk about reviving NAPLPS as a graphics standard, I'd think such
- a board would sell if it wasn't too expensive.
-
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