Digital Technical Journal

This issue of the Digital Technical Journal provides an in-depth look at multimedia and application control technologies at Digital Equipment Corporation. It includes papers on video rendering techniques, software motion pictures (SMP) for desktop video playback, digital audio compression (including MPEG audio standards), image document management with the Megadoc system, multimedia object support in the DEC Rdb database, and the DECspin networked desktop videoconferencing application. The issue concludes with papers on CASE integration using ACA Services and the DEC @aGlance software for integrating manufacturing process information systems.