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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> It's actually RIFF - a multilation of the Amiga IFF format with all the
>> 4-byte values incorrectly written backwards. (Hence "R" for "reverse".)
>
> I think the R stands for Resource.
That's what Microsoft wants you to think. Originally it was "reverse", until
they realized how few people were familiar with the Amiga formats or something.
It's *exactly* IFF, with the endianness reversed. :-)
Altho it does annoy me when I see it mentioned in the press how "RIFF is an
extensible format created by Microsoft...."
I do like how PNG took it a step farther and encoded into the chunk names
whether you need to understand the chunk to parse the file, etc.
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