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Apart from PRESTEL which preceded Minitel I am sure Samuel Fedida would take a dim view of the IEEE not mentioining him.
by walshemj 9y ago
Apart from PRESTEL which preceded Minitel I am sure Samuel Fedida would take a dim view of the IEEE not mentioining him.
- IrishJourno 9y agoThe article notes PRESTEL, and points out the key technical difference between the PRESTEL and Minitel architectures: "Although [Minitel] wasn’t the only network to use X.25 or videotex technology during the 1980s, Minitel was unique in allowing the many service providers to operate their own machines. France Telecom oversaw only the network, whereas in most other countries, a single organization had centralized control of both the network and servers for the videotex system. In the United Kingdom, for example, all content on the Prestel videotex system was hosted on an IBM mainframe housed at the General Post Office."