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- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!nwickham
- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: Tandy's new multimedia machine
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.212115.5181@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
- of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
- control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
- Keywords: VIS, Windows?
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- Reply-To: nwickham@nyx.UUCP (Neal Wickham)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <jonathan.725703131@author.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:21:15 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <jonathan.725703131@author.ecn.purdue.edu> jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
- >
- >I've been hearing for sometime about Tandy's new multimedia box, that it
- >would run a simplified version of Windows that would be capable of running
- >MPC CDs. I glanced one over today, and it looks to me like it runs software
- >that, well, maybe not exactly propietary, but it doesn't look like it would
- >be runnable elsewhere, nor does it look like it can run MPC stuff.
- >
- >So does anyone know what the deal with this is?
- >
- >Jonathan
- >
- >
-
- I think they have two seperate systems. One is VIS which is like a CD-I
- or CDTV player. The other is the "Sensation" which is a 486sx with MPC.
- I think the Sensation is just Windows and MPC. VIS probably has its own
- OS, though I haven't heard much about it. VIS is meant to be displayed
- on a TV and is operated through a remote like CD-I or CDTV.
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- NCW
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