Talk:FourCC

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I think this page should be merged into OSType, since the idea originated on the Mac. Ldo 22:40, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Done. Made FourCC a redirect to OSType. Changed a few things on OSType. Hope you don't mind. AlistairMcMillan 00:18, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nope, I don't mind at all. Looks good! Ldo 04:11, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

If you put ~~~~ at the end of your comment, it'll automatically enter your Username and timestamp. AlistairMcMillan 05:11, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for making the suggestion of a merge. For some reason that hadn't occurred to me. AlistairMcMillan 05:11, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Un-merged

FourCC has since been unmerged with OSType by MCoder. The idea did not originate on the Mac as Ldo has suggested and a merge is not appropriate. See Talk:OSType. – Andyluciano 18:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Please note one historical reference in this regard: According to the original Electronic Arts IFF specification ("EA IFF 85", dated January 14, 1985), Section 2, Subsection "Previous Work", the idea is explicitly mentioned as originating on the Mac and the EA text specifically says "We'll honor Apple's designers by adopting this scheme."

While the concept did originate with Apple, OSTypes are now a specific case of FourCCs (for instance, the MacRoman encoding semantics are specific to Mac OS usage). On the other hand, there’s more information in OSType. Keeping them separate seems sensible. -Ahruman 15:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)