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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Long Live Macintalk!
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Date: 18 Mar 90 01:10:12 GMT
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In article <11705@nlm-mcs.arpa> gish@host.NLM.NIH.GOV (Warren Gish) writes:
>In article <14377@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>>I think it's ludicrous that Macintalk will no longer be a part of the
>>Macintosh, come System 7.
>>
>
>Apple's pronouncement of death to Macintalk was too extravagant,
>considering they've maintained for a very long time that the package is not
>supported.  On the other hand, Apple may have been simply doing its best
>to avoid further criticism... but I have an inkling that Apple has far more
>ambitious plans for our future than Macintalk.
>
>Can you say "digital signal processing," "speech synthesis," and
>"Look out, nExt"?

If they had it, why not announce it???

Look, System 7.0 was announced while it was still a gleam in some developer's
eye, but there's been no announcement other than some commitment to thinking
about it. Also, the strategic importance of System 7 far outweighs any speech
technology in business minded thinkers.  


I can't imagine that the people over at NeXT are quaking in their boots
thinking "Oh, no!  What if they release a new Macintalk?"


Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
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