Bernie wrote:
>
> Clarence wrote:
> >My limited and possibly faulty memory has entries for TI (TI-99 ?) and
> >Commodore computers, plus Atari and other video game manufacturers which
> >used Bit Mapped Images years before Bill Gates started screwing us.
>
> You are mixing things. AFAIK the BMP format is from Microsoft (probably
> from the cooperation with IBM). However a bitmapped image is another thing.
> A bitmapped image is an image that contains (possibly compressed)
> information about pixels.
It is easier to mix things up if you have too much data. <g>
Now you are mixing things. A bitmapped image is an image. Not compressed.
The data file MAY be compressed and you can call that whatever you like.<G>
.TXT is text. .DOC is document - NOT necessarily M$word.
.FLY is flight. .MAP is map. .ASM is assembly code.
.BEG is the beginning of something .END is the end of something
and .BMP is a bitmap - not necessarily an image. :(
All these extensions and more, are obvious and WERE obvious back in
the days of CPM - when no one felt they had to own the letters.
I'm only talking about extensions and their original meanings now.
I may have been fixated on another point before - I've forgotten.
- Clarence Verge
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