[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-07 15:37:04 +0000, David Jones said:

> On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 3:54:53 AM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> Trouble is, there are many binary file formats that do not map easily 
>> to a simple sequence of records (of whatever delimitation). Consider 
>> the IFF family of file formats, for example: these are built out of 
>> chunks, and certain chunk types can contain other chunks.
> Whatever happened to Compound Document Architecture (CDA)? It always 
> struck me as an effort (now abandoned) toward an object oriented file 
> structure.

DEC ceded the desktop app business.

The modern equivalent to CDA is PDF.


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