[Coco] . Gif

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Definitely for Compuserve; it was their successor to RLE. Compuserve did make a terminal program for the Coco itself that supported RLE (and their custom stream download protocol called “B”), but they never did one that natively support GIF. The earliest GIF viewers would be Chris Babcock (CC2GIF and CC3GIF for DECB; he also did O9GIF for OS-9 a little later), and GIFOS9 was the first for OS-9 (whose authors name is escaping me at the moment). 
Animated GIF’s we’re extensions to GIF added by Netscape; while the original 1987 GIF spec from Compuserve did support
multiple rectangular areas to draw in, it didn’t have the special headers that defined timings between each area being drawn, whether the animation went on forever or stopped. etc. 

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> On Mar 24, 2022, at 7:39 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>>> Wilhite was looking for a way to send
>>>> high-quality graphics in color during the early stages of the
>>>> internet.
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> Is this just normal “news getting facts incorrect,” or was GIF actually designed for the pre-web internet? I thought it was commissioned by or at least written for Compuserve?
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> It certainly pre-dates a web browser?
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