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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: History of Macintalk (was Re: Status of Macintalk 2.0)
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.025856.10786@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 02:58:56 GMT
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In article <5152@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>Now, hang on a minute, here.
>
>Here's the story, as I know it. Way back when, when the original Macs
>came out, Apple hired an independent firm to make a speech synthesizer
>for them.  This synthesis program was Macintalk, and Apple didn't get
>the source code for it.  (Wasn't in the deal.)
>
>Now, Macintalk played some games with the Sound Manager that Apple
>simply decided they could no longer support while still making the
>Sound Manager small, fast, and powerful.  As a result, Macintalk
>should stop working any day now; it's just good fortune that keeps it
>from crashing your machine.  Remember, it was made back when the Mac
>Plus was the top-of-the-line machine, I believe, and how much software
>like that will still run and behave itself on a IIfx?

Mac Plus?  Mac Plus?  Sorry... it was in the original software supplement,
which puts it at LEAST as far back as the original Mac 128....
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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