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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: NeXT's Tiff format
Message-ID: <169@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 09:12:57 GMT
References: <20213@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <27320@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <345@granite.dec.com>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
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In article <345@granite.dec.com> allen@decwrl.dec.com (Allen Akin) writes:
>	I have a TIFF spec from 1987.  It claims that the format was
>	developed by a group of companies, principally Aldus and
>	Microsoft.  The format is so baroque and ambiguously specified,
>	it should be obvious that Microsoft was involved.  :-)
                                                           ^^^
No smiley.  It's true, and not funny.  Microsoft's grasp of software
engineering concepts is... tenuous.  That's why I wonder at the sanity
of the people at NeXT who decided to use RTF for the library; I've heard
RTF called the PL/1 of document description languages.
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)