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From: steph@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Stephen Sakamoto)
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Subject: Re: MacinTalk
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Date: 1 Jun 91 06:54:36 GMT
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In article <1991May31.233024.17115@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>jkatz@netcom.COM (Joseph Katz) writes:
>>>MacinTalk was done by an outside firm, 
>
>>  TRUE.  MacinTalk was written by myself and Mark Barton.  Apple contacted
>>         us back in late 1983 to write a speech synthesizer for the yet to
>>         be released Mac.
>
>It is a pity you have not pursued macintalk as an independent product.
>It seems plausible that you could update and/or improve macintalk and
>market it yourselves, in many different ways.
>
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>Why haven't you pursued these options with macintalk?
>

Actually they have improved MacinTalk a great deal for the various other
680x0 platforms they support. They couldn't to anyting for the Mac because 
of licensing restrictions in the contract they signed with Apple.

Apple bought the binary and prevented them from marketing MacinTalk 
themselves.

>Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
>
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