> -----Original Message-----
> From: CobraBoy [mailto:tbyars@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 5:25 PM
> To: jfeise@ics.uci.edu
> Cc: fork@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: Leave well enough alone...
>
>
> At 5:06 PM -0700 4/5/98, Joachim Feise came up with the following:
>
> > CobraBoy wrote:
> > >
> > > and fix what you make.
> > >
> > > > The QuickTime file format, created by Apple
> > > > Computer, is widely used in content creation but it is
> > > > not suitable for cross-platform multimedia file
> > > > interchange.
> > >
> > > Excuse me?
> >
> > There is no real Unix support, for example.
>
> QuickTime runs on SGI. And conversion utilities are available for Sun.
> Since none of the applications mentioned by Ms (PhotoShop, Premiere,
> AfterEffects, ProTools, AVID) are targeted for Unix that is a
> weak point.
>
> >
> > > Anyway to read more go to:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/aaf/whitepaper.htm
> >
> > Funny that this comes from MS. They are usually not known
> for cross-platform
> > concerns.
>
> Yeah, I'll bet x platform comes well well after Win support.
>
> Tim
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>
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