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From: h112706@assari.tut.fi (Herranen Henrik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and "standards"
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.125118.6396@assari.tut.fi>
Date: 14 Dec 90 12:51:18 GMT
References: <90346.222925JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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In article <90346.222925JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>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"...
>:-(

What are you talking about?

I feel it's kind of nice that I may transfer bitmap pictures and
animations between practically ALL Amiga graphic programs. So how
can you claim that IFF is screwed when it was clear from the first
day that it was intended to be an internal Amiga standard. And if
someone else happens to use it, what would be more fun?

I use bitmap pictures as an example, becouse that really shows
how powerful an internal standard is. Look at the I*M compatible
computers. You have N graphic formats and N * N conversion programs.
Not funny, IMHO.

Sorry, if this sounds too much like a flame, but this is my
opinion about IFF. And no flames about my English, I'll argue
about it only in Finnish :-) 

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