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...City to unveil the Multimedia PC (MPC), a souped-up personal computer that can play games, video and interactive programs stored on silver discs that look like audio CDs. Prices start at $2,800 -- or about $800 more than an ordinary PC. One week earlier, former archrivals Apple and IBM revealed plans to start a joint venture, Kaleida, charged with designing their own version of multimedia computers...
...hooked up to a standard TV set to play all manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...
...good interactive multimedia can be fiendishly expensive to produce. Development costs for a typical title start at a quarter-million dollars. IBM this week will unveil the most ambitious -- and expensive -- multimedia project ever attempted: an elaborate exploration of Columbus' world created by former Hollywood filmmaker Robert Abel that took more than a year and some $5 million to produce. Packed with 180 hours worth of slickly polished text, art, music and video sequences (among them an interview with one of the explorer's living descendants), the program, which will sell for about $3,000, takes pains to represent...
...most powerful supercomputers by processing thousands of instructions simultaneously rather than one at a time, Hillis' machine required customized software. But with conventional supercomputers aging and unable to meet future demands, mainstream computer makers are starting to warm up to parallel computing. In perhaps the biggest endorsement yet, IBM last week formed a joint venture with Hillis' company, Thinking Machines, to incorporate parallel technology into Big Blue's line of large computers. The deal marks a major concession by Big Blue, which for years has tried to develop its own parallel computers...
...students with personal computers can use the network; however, IBM PC's require additional hardware to communicate with the system, which is designed for Apple computers...