Videotex vs Minitel - What's the difference?
videotex | minitel |
As nouns the difference between videotex and minitel is that videotex is teletext while minitel is minitel.
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.
|
minitel Proper noun
( en proper noun)
A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
----
|
|
