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Article #74Re: QuickTime
From: Mark Callow
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:48
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:48
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In article <C1F9D7.3Ay@wm.estec.esa.nl>, guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl writes:
>
> The fanfare announcement of the Quicktime port sometime ago was enough to
> push us that little bit further and purchase some Indigos here. We are a
> little worried at the current silence...
>
The original contract was arranged by marketing people who also made
all the fanfare. Since then we have been facing the engineering
reality. The C source code we received from Apple is incredibly Macintosh
specific and difficult to port. The compression code is all written in 68xxx
assembler. We are essentially having to write rather than port the quicktime
code. There will be no further announcements until we have a product to
ship.
P.S. Could you find a news poster/editor that doesn't write such long
lines.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate!odin!sgihub!zola!ramoth!msc From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) Subject: Re: QuickTime Message-ID: <vdne4ao@zola.esd.sgi.com> Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA References: <1il6ddINNpih@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <utnn0o4@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1jn7hcINN4l9@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <v6u20sc@zola.esd.sgi.com> <C1F9D7.3Ay@wm.estec.esa.nl> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:48:08 GMT Lines: 25