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Videotex vs Viewdata - What's the difference?

videotex | viewdata | see also |

Videotex is a see also of viewdata.


As nouns the difference between videotex and viewdata

is that videotex is teletext while viewdata is (often|attributive) an information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.

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.

    viewdata

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia viewdata)
  • (often, attributive) An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.
  • * 1981 , Rex Winsbury, Viewdata in Action: A Comparative Study of Prestel?
    • A viewdata system can be succinctly described as an information and message service...
  • * 1981 , New Scientist
    • The two European systems use an "alphamosaic" method of delivering data to a viewdata terminal screen.
  • * 1982 , Alan Gilchrist, Minis, Micros and Terminals for Libraries and Information Services
    • A particularly important application of intelligent viewdata terminals is in telesoftware where the viewdata network is used for the distribution...

    See also

    * videotex