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In article <1e9s5lINNf42@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ae302@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller) writes:
>
> In a previous article, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) says:
>
>>
>>That would be interesting. All Apple's CDs are in Macintosh HFS format, which
>>means you're going to have an interesting time trying to read them from a
>>machine running Windows. So how you're going to get the player software onto
>>a Windows machine?
>>
>>Yeah, I know, copy them onto DOS-format floppies from a Mac running Apple
>>File Exchange, or DOS Mounter, or something...
>
> I normally don't say much, but IMHO, your statement is dumb. Don't you
> think Apple has enough intelligence to release Quicktime for Windows
> on a CD-ROM that can be read on a PC running Windows? Think before
> you speak!

Luckily I'm a polite, tactful person who doesn't like to call people idiots for
shooting their mouths off without thinking. Didn't you read the following lines
from the posting I was replying to, which you deleted from my followup:

>> The announcement I got (which, of course, I can no longer find. :-/)
>> implied that it would only be released on one of Apple's QuickTime
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>> Development CD's, at, I belive just at $250.00, with a more complete
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