One example was the Remote Imaging Protocol, essentially a picture description system, which remained relatively obscure. It was capable to transmit data like images, audio files, and audio clips between users linked to same BBS or off-line if BBS was in the circuit of FidoNet organization.On the PC, efforts were more oriented to extensions of the original terminal concept, with the GUI being described in the information on the host. It used a standardized set of icons to indicate mouse driven commands available online and to recognize different filetypes present on BBS storage media. Skypix featured on Amiga a complete markup language. FirstClass offered a host of features that would be difficult or impossible under a terminal-based solution, including bi-directional information flow and non-blocking operation that allowed the user to exchange files in both directions while continuing to use the message system and chat, all in separate windows. The latter initially appeared, unsurprisingly, on the Macintosh platform, where TeleFinder and FirstClass became very popular. A number of systems also made forays into GUI-based interfaces, either using character graphics sent from the host, or using custom GUI-based terminal systems.
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