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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macintalk Replacement?
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Date: 24 Oct 90 11:11:05 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.042001.25106@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, drz@po.CWRU.Edu (David R. Zinkin) writes:
> What's all the talk about System 6.0.7 being incompatible with
> MacinTalk?  I've been running the two together for the past three
> days with no problems whatsoever.
> 
From what Apple states about the new sound manager in 6.0.7 is that
it is the System7.0 sound manager. They list dozens of bug fixes!
BUT, I saw no mention of incompatabilities with MacInTalk.
The last word from Apple, concerning MacInTalk, was that they no lomger
supported it (period), and that applications relying on its functionality
would probably break on future hardware/software platforms. They did
not elaborate on which those would be.

So, the bottom line is -> Don't build a $1 Million a year software
product on MacinTalk unless you are prepared to rewrite it. Otherwise,
it will probably continue to work on most Macs running 6.X for some
time. I can't say what it does under 7.0, haven't tried it.

tim.

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