Chipp Walters wrote:
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Someone was going to a lot of trouble to make sure 'multimedia' was the next big thing. ....
At least one of those "someones" was (gasp, cough, choke) Bill Gates. Microsoft sponsored a really good tradeshow in San Jose called "InterMedia" that I attended in 1993. It was all about multimedia, and the delivery/storage medium that was still pretty new then: CD-Recordable. The first CD-R inkjet printer, built by Herb Craig, was being shown in the Trace Optical booth (it wasn't very practical since at that time printable media wasn't available), Delorme was displaying their "Street Atlas CD-ROM" (which I still use, one of only 2 Classic apps I hang onto), and Meridian Data Systems were in a shooting war with Young Minds Inc. over who could actually deliver systems to allow CD-R burning across a network. Of course, YMI's stuff was UNIX-only, but ...
My theory all along has been that Microsoft liked CD-ROM so much because it allowed them to deliver bloatware.... but then I'm just prejudiced.
Cheers, Kat http://cd-info.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
