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- From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Subject: Re: New Needs and Standards
- Message-ID: <NRaDwB2w165w@freeside.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 20:14:58 CST
- References: <1992Dec24.203317.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236
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- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
-
- > Sounds like to being about the new world of the cyberspace/punk what is neede
- > is technology more than what is available in the now.. Such as new Operating
- > Systems (unless Windows/Unix/OS2 or what ever can handle it).
- > Also need new standards od ANSI, Graphics Files, and digital verus analg phon
- > lines..And more.. What is all that is needed?? Any suggestions?
- >
- >
- > Michael Adams
- > Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- > nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- >
-
-
- Right now we have more technology than we can use. What we need is
- better programs. I for instance am posting this over a Waffle System.
- This is a MS-DOS BBS that lets me talk to the internet for free.
- But it is in many ways, very primitive. The editor is crap, I have no
- kill file abilities, ect. If a far better Internet-MSDOS BBS system were
- to come about, this would be of far greater use to the world than a new
- modem with more bells and whistles, or a faster chip from Intel.
-
- I just got America Online, tho' I have not signed up yet with 'em.
- They are one of these outfits that supplies a graphic frontend based on
- Geoworks. They dont have to supply huge amounts of data for great
- graphics on your end, cause most of the programming is in the system on
- your end.
-
- Imagine systems something like that. Download Graphics, Animation,
- Sounds, VR objects, load into your system and the a few simple commands
- over the modem will let you see ..... ????? and do ??????
-
- Not much done here, huh? But we have the technology. Cheap 9600 modems,
- cheap accelerated VGA cards, fast chips with built in math processors.
- And BBS systems are still basically the same as when everyone was using
- TTY's and 300 baud acoustical modems.
-
- It is a Programming Problem. A few systems are taking a crack at this
- approach, (Prism fer example0, but what we have here is a failure to
- utilize our resources to the maximum.
-
- We won't be playing full blown VR games over the net soon, but we should
- be able to do one hell of a lot better than what we have now.
-
- And none of this can be blamed on the hardware side.
-
- So, when ya gonna start learning C++ ?
-
- Pope Charles SubGenius Pope Of Houston. Slack! And electrons
- too.
-
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