Videotex vs Alphageometrics - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between videotex and alphageometrics

is that videotex is teletext while alphageometrics is a display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the (telidon) system).

videotex

English

(wikipedia videotex)

Alternative forms

* videotext

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.
  • * 1980 , IEEE Computer Society, Computer?
    • A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.
  • * 1984 , The Radio and Electronic Engineer?
    • In this paper, the development of a microprocessor based system for converting videotex pages to synthetic speech in real time, for the benefit of blind people, is described.

    alphageometrics

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the (Telidon) system).

    • Related terms

    * alphageometric