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In-reply-to: <199711040420.FAA19136@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> (message from Luigi Rizzo on Tue, 4 Nov 1997 05:20:28 +0100 (MET))
Subject: Re: speak_freely
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * plain audio tools remains plain audio, e.g. timidity, sox, mpg123,
 * mikmod etc find their place there.
 * 
 * Depending on how we define "multimedia" (e.g. tools using _both_
 * audio and video (and the latter not only for a GUI), or collaborative
 * tools, ...) we can select what to put.
 * 
 * The term multimedia is really abused these days, so it practically
 * means nothing. Everytime I go shopping for peripherals I find
 * multimedia microphones, multimedia speakers, multimedia heaphones,
 * multimedia modems... oh yes, now I realize, it must be the color
 * -- a computerish cream/light grey ... non-multimedia audio equipment is
 * black!

You said exactly what I meant. :)

We need a category that is easier to distinguish from others.  As it
stands, "audio" and "multimedia" is going to have too much overlap.

Satoshi