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In <1992Sep11.180537.13946@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kberlin@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kimon Berlin) writes:

>Minitel terminals are free in France, so is access to the online phone
>directory. Commercial services are about 1 FF/minute ($.20/min).

>The screen is 24x40, with "semi-graphic" characters - uuuugly. Transmission
>is an asymetric 1200/75 baud.
>Some Minitel terminals support 80x24 but there's no way around the internal
>modem. France Telecom plans a second generation "high-performance" terminal
>working at a blazing 4800 bps. Wheee.

Jan, are you listening?  

Kimon, could you give us more details?  How do people feel about it in
France:  How do the technical people feel, who know the maximum potential?
And how to the common folks feel?  Also, are the common folks as likely
as US folks to have, e.g., a 386 with ms-windows on it?  (Last I heard,
about 1/3 of households had computers, and I'm sure a high percentage of
them have at least seen something like ms-windows; of the 2/3 that don't
have computers, many use them at work or have at least seen ms-windows.
I'm no fan of windows, but I'd take that any day over videotex!)
-- 

Andrew Burt 		   					  aburt@du.edu

      "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"