1.   Gain says the acquisition positions it to take on the full scope of designing, building and delivering large-scale multimedia systems.

2.   Certainly, multimedia systems can perform spectacular, even awesome feats.

3.   This suggests four important factors in all multimedia systems.

4.   In other words, a successful multimedia system must offer an interface with its user, so friendly that it is effectively transparent.

5.   In multimedia systems, the most successful type of interface today is known as the Graphical User Interface.

6.   It may be more of one than the other, depending on the basic approach of the multimedia system.

7.   We have already touched upon the significance of compact discs and their increasingly standard use as storage media in multimedia systems.

8.   Commodore have ingeniously integrated established technology to create the appearance of a new kind of multimedia system.

9.   The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges, therefore, will be much more than a single delivery platform.