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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Quicktime for Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.165004.12283@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:50:04 +1300
- References: <1992Nov17.114218.12226@waikato.ac.nz> <mjh4.721692115@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <YANDROS.92Nov16035709@deathtongue.MIT.EDU> <1e9s5lINNf42@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >> Development CD's, at, I belive just at $250.00, with a more complete
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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