1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
2:22 a.m.
> "Videotex: The New Television/Telephone
Information Services" by R.
> Woolfe, 1980. This one looks like interesting reading. Quite a few
> colour photos from Prestel. A bit of a moral dilemma, though, as the
> book appears to have been taken out of a (non-local) university library
> in 1991 and not returned.
I wouldn't have a moral fit over this one. It was
more than likely
discarded by the university because of its stale content.
Speaking of Prestel (and of course CEPT :) does anybody know
what happend to NAPLIPS (North American Presentation Layer
..???.. Standard - long time ago) - it was a NT (nice try)
to set a properitary US standard agains CEPT/Prestel for
a minitel like online system. Have there been any installations
beyond a demostration ? Or did they only produce enough smoke
to avoide the implementation of an international standard (as
seen with mobile phones, ISDN, etc.) ?
Gruss
H.
BTW. that seams to be an US specific phenomen to fight any
standard, until there is no other choice, or the world is
again splited into two worlds (more than by the French,
where everybody would assume such an atitude).
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK