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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
>        100 years from now someone comes across a storage device containing 
> two documents - one in PDF/A and one in TIFF.   There are no current 
> "software" products that can read either format, and so one must be written 
> from specification.  ASSUMING that the specifications/standard documents are 
> available - which would be easier to implement from scratch WITH NO REFERENCE 
> IMPLEMENTATION.

I happen to believe that the TIFF specification is one of the best 
quality file format specifications available.  I have seen few that 
are better.

100 years sounds impressive, but the USA is just a bit over 200 years 
old, the automobile has been around for about 100 years, refrigerators 
have been in common use for 50 years, and "modern" computing did not 
even start until around 1978 or so.  It is rather difficult to know 
what the world of computing will be like 100 years from now.  The 
mention of 100 years as some sort of "fact" sounds like a bunch of hot 
air to me. :-)

Based on rapid advances in recent history, in 100 years a "computer" 
might be an organic mass more like a human brain, it may be completely 
optical, or based on something we are not even aware of yet.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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