Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (01/26/91)
After Wednesday night's unix pc meeting with Thad talking about all these high speed LAN stuff, on Thursday night I went to a presentation of the new version 3.0 of PereLine Communications software at the Silicon Valley Computer Society Telecommunication SIG. This is a DOS package but the topics also included a lot of high speed this and that and a lot of buzz words, isdn, 1megabite per second, multiple processes, simultaneous windows, blah, blah. I know us [you] unix pc'ers know a lot about all this tricky stuff so here is what I'd like to set up. I think I'll call it a Holy LAN. The idea is to have a church where each person brings their own computer, like we do at the unix pc users group. All the machines would then be plugged together and each video monitor would have a bunch of windows. One for the main lecture. No talking allowed, just typing. If someone wanted to talk, they would push a button and a numbered light would go on on each persons video monitor. If enough persons pushed a vote button to recognize the question, that person would then have their output to the main window on everyones screens. Other windows would allow dictionary, other reference, computer text to speech. For instance if the main lecturer was typing in some of Buddha's Sutras in Kanji, you could have them translated in another window and if we could get two voice power cards in one machine you could have stereo speech output, one language in each ear, background music, etc... Don't you all forget that if I get this thing running I want to trade mark the name Holy LAN. But I doubt that many know how to handle music and multilingual speech on a unix-pc from what I see here on the net. I guess with the one exeption of Timothy J. Thompson at Bell Labs. I think he is the only one I have heard of that can do music on a unix pc. alvin Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect. G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks alvin@cup.portal.com