Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: <1991Jun28.225233.19410@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 22:52:33 GMT References: <1991Jun27.200801.24637@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >>In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wr >>> baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >>>>> Does Commodore have a Japanese version of AmigaDOS??? If not, why not?! I >>>>.... >>>> (some silly stuff deleted) >>> >>> You call an Japanese version of AmigaDOS silly!? 200,000 people from Japan >>> working in the US with computer systems that are very un-friendly to >>> them!?!??!! The NEC systems here don't run the Japanese software...Apple if >>> left unchallanged will make a killing! >> >>Yes. I do. There is a great deal more involved aiming a product at a market >>than getting the language right. The Amiga attempting to compete in Japan >>against Japanese companies would have troubles because: >> >Apple Computer is catering to the needs of 250 Japanese firms in the Detroit >area. Apple uses something called KanjiTalk, which uses word phonetics to >build characters from the sounds of the word types in. The user points to the >character on the screen that is the correct one.... > Wouldn't it be possible to incorporate Kanji via a Kanji font and a Commodity which would trap incoming keystrokes and process them? -- Ethan FF buckets of bits on the bus, FF buckets of bits. Take one down, Short it to ground, FE buckets of bits on the bus.