Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

Vintage Computer Festival vcf at siconic.com
Wed Aug 11 13:00:17 CDT 2004


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Cini, Richard wrote:

> 	I tend to forget about the Motorola format (call me an Intel snob).
> The 16mb would be enough for many systems, and I would hope that 4gb would
> be enough, at least for now, to represent the largest of the media types we
> want to represent.

The data should be structured in a way where address size does not even
come into consideration.  Why would we encode platform specific
information into a media archive?

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