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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: chinese computer
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 17:32:47 EST
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In article <1423@ttidca.TTI.COM> lei@ttidca.TTI.COM (Mary Lei) writes:
>I read from the November 2nd issue of Business week that next year
>San Diego based China Business Machines will announce a
>Chinese wordprocessor and computer that mimics the brush strokes of
>Chinese character writing. Anyone have more information on this?

I don't understand what the big deal is here. Apple periodically
issues free updates of its system software. Two upgrades ago the
system software was augmented with a new sub-system called the "script
manager" that lets the macintosh handle non-roman character sets. If
you have the Chinese language interface module on your system
(available for about $50.00 from APDA.), then you can use the Apple
standard tool ResEdit to convert an arbitrary application into chinese
(For example you can convert all of Excel's menus, dialogs, and error
messages to Chinese.)  

Script manager compatible word processors, such as Macintosh Microsoft
Word 3.01, let you mix English and Chinese (and as many other language
interface systems as you have on your system) on the same line.

The way the Mac operating system works, you can directly use Chinese
in graphics and page layout programs, and print it from any application
to any printer.

Seems kind of dumb to wait a year for vaporware from San Diego when 
you could be working on a Macintosh today.

I personally haven't seen the Chinese language interface system.
I only own a copy of the Arabic and the Kanji language interface systems.

--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.
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