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From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 14 Dec 90 01:22:46 GMT
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In article <90346.222605JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) wrote:
>Anyone else notice that this isn't the first time Commodore has
>adopted an impending "standard" only to be screwed when nobody
>else adopted it?  It sure happened with the IFF "standard"...
>:-(


Well, I don't know if it's a tragedy.  With IFF, I can take the output
from a ray-tracer and load it into a paint program without having to send
the image(s) through a program which converts formats.  On the Amiga,
a font is a font and a picture is a picture and a sample is a sample.
I haven't been able to do the same thing when using certain other
machines.

We may not have compatibility with everyone else, but at least we
have it with ourselves, and that's more than some can say.

>                                                            Kurt
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