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NAPLPS

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NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax) is a graphics language for use originally with videotex and teletext services. [1]

69 relations: Alex (videotex service), American National Standards Institute, Antiope (teletext), ASCII, ASCII art, Associated Press, AT&T Corporation, AT&T Sceptre, Atex (software), BBC, Bell 202 modem, Bell Canada, Bell MTS, Bulletin board system, Cable television, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ceefax, Communications Research Centre Canada, CSA Group, DATAPAC, Digital Research, Eaton Centre, Expo 86, Florida, General Post Office, Graphical Kernel System, Graphical user interface, Graphics Environment Manager, Image file formats, Independent Broadcasting Authority, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Knight Ridder, Library (computing), Los Angeles Times, Miami, Microcomputer, Minitel, Minneapolis, Modem, Motorola 6809, NABTS, Norpak, North America, NTSC, OpenGL, ORACLE (teletext), Orange County, California, Orlando, Florida, Ottawa, PHIGS, ..., Plotter, Prestel, Prodigy (online service), Raster graphics, Remote Imaging Protocol, Shift Out and Shift In characters, Sports Plus Network, SportsChannel, Teletext, Television, Telidon, Toronto, Tribune Content Agency, TVOntario, Vancouver, Vertical blanking interval, Videotex, Viewtron, Zilog Z80. Expand index (19 more) »

Alex (videotex service)

Alex was the name of an interactive videotex information service offered by Bell Canada in market research from 1988 to 1990 and thence to the general public until 1994.

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American National Standards Institute

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.

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Antiope (teletext)

Antiope was a French teletext standard in the 1980s.

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ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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ASCII art

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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AT&T Corporation

AT&T Corp., originally the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is the subsidiary of AT&T that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

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AT&T Sceptre

The AT&T Sceptre was a graphical terminal launched by AT&T in October 1983, used for the two largest deployments of videotex in the United States: Knight Ridder's Viewtron service in Florida, and the Los Angeles Times' Gateway service in Southern California.

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Atex (software)

Atex is a company specializing in the development of advertising, editorial and web content management systems.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bell 202 modem

The Bell 202 modem was an early (1976) modem standard developed by the Bell System.

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Bell Canada

Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Bell MTS

Bell MTS Inc. (formerly Manitoba Telecom Services) is a subsidiary of BCE Inc. that operates telecommunications services in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Ceefax

Ceefax was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service.

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Communications Research Centre Canada

The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC; Centre de recherches sur les communications Canada) is a Canadian government scientific laboratory for research and development in wireless technologies, with a particular focus on the efficient use of radio frequency spectrum.

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CSA Group

The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association; CSA), is a standards organization which develops standards in 57 areas.

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DATAPAC

DATAPAC was Canada's packet switched X.25-equivalent data network.

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Digital Research

Digital Research, Inc. (also known as DR or DRI) was a company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and GEM.

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Eaton Centre

Eaton Centre is a name associated with shopping malls in Canada, originating with Eaton's, one of Canada's largest department store chains at the time that these malls were developed.

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Expo 86

The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Friday, May 2 until Monday, October 13, 1986.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in England in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of state postal system and telecommunications carrier.

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Graphical Kernel System

The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) was the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics, introduced in 1977.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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Graphics Environment Manager

Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) was an operating environment created by Digital Research (DRI) for use with the DOS operating system on Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.

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Image file formats

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images.

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Independent Broadcasting Authority

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada), or ISED, formerly Industry Canada, is the department of the Government of Canada with a mandate of fostering a growing, competitive, and knowledge-based Canadian economy.

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Knight Ridder

Knight Ridder (from Dutch ridder, knight) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit (CPU).

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Minitel

The Minitel was a Videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Modem

A modem (modulator–demodulator) is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.

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Motorola 6809

The Motorola 6809 ("sixty-eight-oh-nine") is an 8-bit microprocessor CPU with some 16-bit features from Motorola.

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NABTS

NABTS, the North American Broadcast Teletext Specification, is a protocol used for encoding NAPLPS-encoded teletext pages, as well as other types of digital data, within the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of an analog video signal.

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Norpak

Norpak Corporation was a company headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of systems for television-based data transmission.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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NTSC

NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee,National Television System Committee (1951–1953),, 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables.

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OpenGL

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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ORACLE (teletext)

ORACLE (from "Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics") was a commercial teletext service first broadcast on the ITV network in the mid-late 1970s and later on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, finally ending on both channels at 23:59 UTC on 31 December 1992.

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Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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PHIGS

PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) is an application programming interface (API) standard for rendering 3D computer graphics, considered to be the 3D graphics standard for the 1980s through the early 1990s.

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Plotter

The plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics.

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Prestel

Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979.

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Prodigy (online service)

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.

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Raster graphics

In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix data structure that represents a generally rectangular grid of pixels (points of color), viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.

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Remote Imaging Protocol

The Remote Imaging Protocol and its associated Remote Imaging Protocol Scripting Language, RIPscrip, is a scripting language that provides a system for sending vector graphics over low-bandwidth links, notably modems.

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Shift Out and Shift In characters

Shift Out (SO) and Shift In (SI) are ASCII control characters 14 and 15, respectively (0x0E and 0x0F).

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Sports Plus Network

Sports Plus Network was a service run by SportsChannel in 1988-1993 that filled the airtime when SportsChannel was not on the air.

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SportsChannel

SportsChannel is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that was owned by Cablevision, which from 1988 until the group's demise, operated it as a joint venture with NBC.

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Teletext

Teletext (or broadcast teletext) is a television information retrieval service created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by the Philips Lead Designer for VDUs, John Adams.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Telidon

Telidon (from the Greek words τῆλε, tele "at a distance" and ἰδών, idon "seeing") was a videotex/teletext service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) during the late 1970s and supported by commercial enterprises led by Infomart in the early 1980s.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Tribune Content Agency

Tribune Content Agency (TCA) is a syndication company owned by Tronc.

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TVOntario

TVOntario (often shortened to TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a Canadian publicly funded English language educational television station and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vertical blanking interval

In a raster graphics display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final line of a frame or field and the beginning of the first line of the next frame.

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Videotex

Videotex (or "interactive videotex") was one of the earliest implementations of an end-user information system.

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Viewtron

Viewtron was an online service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T from 1983 to 1986.

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Zilog Z80

The Z80 CPU is an 8-bit based microprocessor.

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ANSI X3.110-1983, CSA T500-1983, CsISO99NAPLPS, ISO-IR-99, Iso-ir-99, North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPLPS

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