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From: jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce
Message-ID: <352@atacama.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 17:46:39 GMT
References: <1991May23.012705.24776@leland.Stanford.EDU> <49410@ut-emx.uucp> <215@touch.touch.com>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <215@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes:
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| I saw a clip from some Mac rag awhile ago talking about how the Mac was 
| getting into m ultimedia.  It stated that apple had developed a standard
| called MIFF and it was based on the Amiga's IFF standard.  The blurb
| EVEN GAVE THE AMIGA CREDIT for developing the first file standard
| specifically oriented for multi-media, and specifically mentioned
| Electronic Arts!


AAAAAHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Okay, unneccessarily violent.  Sue me.)  Why, Lord?  Why another IFF
derivative file format?  If Microsoft and Apple feel that they could use
an IFF type standard, why don't they use the one that already exists rather
than going their own (presumably incompatible) way?  I mean, I can understand
that Microsoft would want to promulgate a standard that used Intel byte
ordering, but what's Apple's execuse?  Didn't feel like registering with
Electronic Arts?  Uhrrrrr...

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