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* Reading Material: Multimedia computing Different strains of computers have quite different abilities to integrate all those elements. Each offers different operating-system and “authoring-system” software to create, read from peripherals (e.g., videodisk players, CD players, optical disk drivers, and video cameras), combine, edit, and produce multimedia as the sophisticated video, audio, and graphics hardware. The advancement of hardware technology is certainly central to the success of multimedia. However, application developers must keep their feet on the ground and concentrate their efforts on delivering real utility. Multimedia capabilities will be sprinkled through almost all layers of software, offering new interfaces, new business applications, redefined programming tools, and possibly new operating systems. What is being advocated is using multimedia to expand the uses of computers. Multimedia could have a direct impact at the following areas: computer-based training, education, edutainment, entertainment, information access, business presentations, and other areas. * Reading Material: Multimedia computing As an example, consider how utility is moving the personal computer industry from the traditional character-based user interfaces to the now-popular graphical user interface, with their windows, icons, mice, and pull-down menus. It’s not because GUIs are more fun to use but because they can make you more productive. In fact, the GUI will eventually become standard features in new applications. We will have a third interface: the video user interface. Windows will be filled with static and motive video, high-resolution icons will become animated graphics, and audio will be a standard accompaniment to text. As for programmer’s tools and operating systems, multimedia-assisted tools will prove to be as helpful to program developers as interfaces to end users. Object-oriented programming will grow to include more media-rich