Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!jordan
From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Message-ID: <20983@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:50:29 GMT
References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Dear Phil -
	The reason that Apple Computer does not support MacinTalk, is because
we do not have the sources to MacinTalk.  MacinTalk was done by a third
party back when the Macintosh was only a gleam in Steve Job's eye.
	When the Macintosh SE and II were under development, we worked to
hack the binary of MacinTalk - done by the great Paul Mercer before he joined
Apple - so that it would work on the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II.
	Though we are not supporting MacinTalk, we are looking at supplying
speech on the Macintosh.  A number of possibilities are under investigation.
 	


Jordan Mattson				UUCP:   jordan@apple.apple.com       
Apple Computer, Inc.			CSNET: 	jordan@apple.CSNET
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