The Liaison Network Multimedia Workstation
17 July 1990
Future computing networks will offer far higher communications performance than current networks provide, making possible a broad range of communications and information retrieval services. Many of these applications will require real-time video and audio capabilities as well as other communications-intensive services. The ability to receive large amounts of information from a digital network has a significant effect on the design of both the network interface and the attached workstation. Of particular concern is the ability to control the high bandwidth of video coming into the workstation while still allowing many overlapping video windows to be simultaneously displayed.