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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Arnaud Gourdol)
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Subject: Re: History of Macintalk (was Re: Status of Macintalk 2.0)
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Date: 14 Jan 91 13:31:36 GMT
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>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....
>--
>Matthew T. Russotto     russotto@eng.umd.edu    russotto@wam.umd.edu
>     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.

Yes, quite right, Macintalk is a very ancient piece of software.
Its first public use was on January 24, 1984, when the Mac was uweiled to the
world.

Steve Jobs insisted that the Mac should express himself. So it did. One of the
now famous sentence he said was:

"Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift"

(This now applies to the Mac II line)


Arnaud.