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Multimedia computing represents the logical next step in the relentless march by which computing technology is becoming ever more useful and ubiquitous in our everyday lives. The first small steps were made by time-sharing systems. Next came interactive computer graphics and the graphical user interfaces developed at Xerox PARC and subsequently popularized, first by Apple and then by Microsoft and workstation manufacturers such as Apollo, DEC, HP, IBM, Silicon Graphics, and Sun.
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Encarnação, J., Foley, J. (1994). Introduction. In: Encarnação, J.L., Foley, J.D. (eds) Multimedia. Computer Graphics: Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85046-2_1
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