CS4624 GREE92


James L. Green: pages (v35/n01/GREE92)
The Evolution of DVI System Software

Excerpt:


The desktop computer has been undergoing a transformation from a text
and numeric processing system to a powerfirl tool for managing and
communicating all types of digital information. Audio, photo-realistic
images and motion video have joined the ranks of other digital data
types available to application developers [2]. The addition of these
"multimedia" data types places new requiremcnts on the computer
systems and their operating environments: Multimedia data consumes
massive amounts of storage space, and playback of full-motion digital
video requires real-time decompression and high I/O bandwidth [7].


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