NAPLIPS (was: interesting book)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Feb 1 14:29:26 1999

"Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de> wrote:
> Speaking of Prestel (and of course CEPT :) does anybody know
> what happend to NAPLIPS (North American Presentation Layer
> ..???.. Standard - long time ago) - it was a NT (nice try)

I believe NAPLPS was used by the Prodigy service (classic, not Prodigy
Internet). Of course, Prodigy classic has lost big bucks every year, and they
are finally closing it down. But rather than admitting that it was a stupid
idea, they are blaming the shutdown on the Y2K problem.

It appeared that NAPLPS may also have been used for some children's
entertainment/education channels on cable systems. These channels had
animation that slowly updated, and you could watch things like flood fills
proceed line by line.

NAPLPS used to be an ANSI standard, but a few years ago I saw a notice that
ANSI was withdrawing it. So now you can sell your L_at__at_K RARE K00L copy of
the standard on ePay for thousands of dollars.
Received on Mon Feb 01 1999 - 14:29:26 GMT