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In article <f5b401a346SM00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> trip@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tripatinder Chowdhry) writes:
>I just subscribed to this group.  Could some one tell me what a 
>multimedia is?
>
>thanks
>...trip


Multi-media used to mean any artwork that combines more then one media.  Paint
and pencil might be considered multi-media.  Then multi-media became a buzz
word that meant the use of slide projectors with sound track.  To this day
if you go to an audio-visual supplier and ask what they have in multimedia
they will start to sell you slide projectors, sound equipment, programmers.
I was hoping when I first found this group that I would learn more about this
theatrical control of equipment.

BUT what this group seems to center on is the presentation of images, sounds
and animation on a computer.  Much of the talk is about compression and 
decompression schemes (hardware and software) and document standards such 
that there are files for images, sounds, animation.

In terms of selling a multi-media computer, presumedly it would be a machine
that can playback realtime animation somwhere on the screen.  With image
compression chip sets out its only a matter of time until such a machine 
comes into existence.  The amiga and Next machines are probably the closest
so far although PC's and Macs and Suns are having hardware add ons to make it
happen.

mark
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Visualization Laboratory,Department of Architecture    ph:409-845-0199
Texas A&M University,College Station, TX, 77843