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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 30 Jun 91 09:44:24 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jun29.205207.5681@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> >    The IFF format dates back to '85, just a year after these .MACs. It
> >    is still the standard format, since it can handle extensions for

>   The PICT format dates back to '84.  It is still the standard format, since
> it can handle extensions for 24-bit, etc.

    Except that it is NOT the standard format. If it were a genuine
    standard, then why are the pictures exported to other platforms by
    local Mac owners in a different Macintosh format, rather than PICT?

    Pick one:

    (a) the .MAC was the standard format, but now things have changed. And
        thus dies the "still the standard format".

    (b) the .MAC is a non-standard format that people used because they
        didn't know better. Says a lot for the quality of such "standards"
        on the Mac. The Ami paint software I've seen can't save in
        anything BUT IFF.

    Point (b) is similar to the line of reasoning re the clipboard, btw.

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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