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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive International Macs
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.202804.18739@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 21:26:09 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.065209.17114@uwasa.fi>, hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes...
 
>In article <1990Dec5.002230.13579@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>>In article <1990Dec5.094856.3679@csc.anu.oz.au>, pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes...
>>Not necessarily.  For instance, Apple is an American company and much of its
>>production is thus oriented towards English.  There is probably some non-zero
>>amount of money involved in translating sofware, manuals, etc. into French,
>>Swiss French, German, Swiss German, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic, Hebrew,
>>Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Dutch, Faerose
>>(Faeroese???), etc.  (BTW there is System Software localized to each of the
>>above, and possibly more).
> 
>No, no,   no.  APDA sells these  System  disks for  $35  if I remember
>correct. So it can't help a thing. 



I'm sorry, perhaps I was mistaken on this.  I thought that localized system
software was distributed in the relevant country.  For instance, I thought
Finnish system software would be distributed in Finland.  If this is not the
case, I stand corrected.  If it is the case, you have no point.


Robert


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