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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 21 Dec 90 17:46:57 GMT
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In article <41363@ut-emx.uucp> lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes:
>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"...
>:-(

     The IFF standard was origonally used by Electronic Arts for their games.
Commodore and Electronic Arts have (or were) working together to make it a
standard.  I don't really see what the problem is, it is a nice general, all
encompassing standard, and it has drifted over into the Mac, IBM, and Atari
worlds, I've even seen people who wanted to use it on their SUN's.  Besides,
what other standard would you use GIF?  And as for the business about SVR4
UNIX not being standard, GIMME A BREAK!!  AT&T invented UNIX.

                                       --George