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Re: off topic: forks in Macintosh

Date1999-10-21 17:57
FromEloy Anzola
SubjectRe: off topic: forks in Macintosh
Stephen said:

> The AIFF format was (and I believe still is) copyrighted by
> Apple Computer.  It was developed as a second-generation audio file format,
> I believe to replace Apple's 8-bit SND resource format.

> WAV was developed by Microsoft as their sound file format.
> Only the Berkeley-style
> (IRCAM/UCSD/NeXT/Sun) formats are truly native to UNIX.

Thanks for clearing this up.

Eloy
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