A601IFAD@HASARA11.BITNET (Rachid Tebbal) (03/21/91)
Our department is currently investigating the availability of hypermedia systems for OS/2 and UNIX. In the past weeks we've read about a system called Guide, but don't know whether it's available on the platforms mentioned above. Information about this systems and others are very much appreciated in private or to the lists. Rachid Tebbal <a601ifad@vm1.sara.nl> Department of Information Systems University of Amsterdam
trip@uts.amdahl.com (Tripatinder Chowdhry) (03/22/91)
I just subscribed to this group. Could some one tell me what a multimedia is? thanks ...trip
jansen@archone.tamu.edu (Mark Jansen) (03/27/91)
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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Jansen jansen@archone.tamu.edu Visualization Laboratory,Department of Architecture ph:409-845-0199 Texas A&M University,College Station, TX, 77843
vassili@ibmpcug.co.uk (Vassilis Konstantinou) (04/06/91)
In article <91078.124726A601IFAD@HASARA11.BITNET> A601IFAD@HASARA11.BITNET (Rachid Tebbal) writes: > Our department is currently investigating the availability of hypermedia > systems for OS/2 and UNIX. In the past weeks we've read about a system > called Guide, but don't know whether it's available on the platforms > mentioned above. Information about this systems and others are very much > appreciated in private or to the lists. > > Rachid Tebbal <a601ifad@vm1.sara.nl> > Department of Information Systems > > University of Amsterdam We are developing a large scale Electronic Documentation System for a number of big organisations (including Unisys Corp.). Our system runs on Unix 386/V, SunOS, and MS-DOS. Also a version for X is close to completion. We have not considered OS/2 yet but we are developing an MS Windows version. It is an intelligent Hypertext system which offers autuomatic crossreference between any number of flat documents. The cross-reference is phrase-based, i.e. the author has to indicate the phrases/keywords that he wishes to use for the links. The system is designed to be used both remotely, over modem lines, or locally, and we have a CURSES based version so any of the popular "non-intelligent" monitors can be used with it. The viewing system offers: - guidance facilities, for example at any time the user can examine his/her path through a document and "jump" to any of the previous "locations". - automatic index generation. The index contains all the references that are defined and can be used for "jumps" - automatic avoidance of cyclic routes. i.e. the system does not allow you to move to a location that is already in your path. - pattern search on the index - graphical links (in TIFF format). The development environment currenlty works with plain ASCII files and allows - the xref of any number of files - can detect and record non-accessible definitions (defined but not used keyphrases) - report on all links defined in a part of the text - report on all links to a keyphrase. etc The system is both available for both educational and commercial uses (although the prices are diff.) For more information please don't hesitate to contact me at any of the following address: V.Konstantinou Head of A.I. Research Group School of Computer Science The Polytechnic of Central London 115 New Cavendish Street London W1M 8JS. Telephone : +44-71-911-5000 ext 3598 FAX : +44-71-911-5089 Janet Address : konstan@uk.ac.pcl.mole or vassilis@uk.ac.pcl.sun PRESTEL MBX : 011113071 CONNECT : vassili@ibmpcug.co.uk BIX : vassilis COMPUSERVE : 100016,426@compuserve.com CIX : vassilis@cix.compulink.co.uk -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. --