Re: Rationale: No New OS.

my inner geek (geek@ifeden.com)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:02:16 +0800

Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>:

> The infrastructure is all there. All you need are applications. What was
> your rationale for a yet another OS? Distributed nonlinear video?

Yes. Distributed HDTV wavelet compressed video.

Here's what it will look like hanging on the wall in your living room.

See http://www.define.com/hdtv/2x1_with_16x9_insert.jpg

Notice the space of to the side. It can be programmed to be colored identically to the paint on your wall, or can hold the icons for the various annotations. (See http://crit.org/). Of course, CRIT will need to be modified to refer to the underlying time code, and the database will be pretty damn huge, since the language of Hollywood will be the new post human "alien speak".

Should these little black boxes filled with dsp's and ram be completely wireless, or should there be built in fiber ports?



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