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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (N Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Me and Peter on the binaries on the net
Keywords: The NET
Message-ID: <586@cord.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 16:51:20 GMT
References: <4571@gryphon.CTS.COM> <32674@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (59455-N Weinstock)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <32674@aero.ARPA> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) writes:
>Techncal briefings come to mind. Sometimes one good chart showing a sketch
>conveys a lot more more information a lot better than do a lot of text charts
>or verbal statements.
>
> [ some other stuff deleted ]
>
>Any comments?
>

Yeah.  It seems like the proposed "Amiga quickdraw" object-oriented drawing
format would make the posting of charts, technical sketches etc. fairly
economical.   I would guess that most diagrams which are not tremendously
intricate would be much more compact as a set of object drawing commands than
as a bitmap.  So, I don't think that technical diagrams would really impact
the bandwidth consumed by the group they're posted in all that much.

It would be nice to be able to post diagrams easily to the net, but until
the standard is established and everybody has a generic reader they got from
a Fish disk it won't be all that universally helpful.

P.S.  So what's the status of that old discussion anyway?

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>The above opinions are all my own.
>Richard Foy

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