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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ACER
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.164610.9832@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 16:46:10 GMT
References: <8912311033.AA01469@apple.com> <1990Jan2.181230.29002@eng.umd.edu> <3064@plains.UUCP> <10140@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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In article <10140@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes:
>wilken@plains.UUCP (Scott Wilken) writes:
>>
>>cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>>>
>>><TSEMM%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>well, as far as I know... ACER is a computer manufacture ...
>>>
>>Heh Heh.  I think you are thinking of Franklin.  Their computers go under the
>
>Franklin doesn't enter the picture.  Chun-Yao is right.  Acer Incorporated is a
>PC clone manufacturer located in Taipei, Tiawan.  They were here at Microsoft

Isn't it amazing how many wildly different explanations explanations there can
be for one simple question.

Since the original post referred to sound, I presume the ACER in question is
the Audio Compression and Expansion (ACE) utility called ACER from Apple. It
compresses and decompresses IIgs sound samples so they take up less space on
disk.

If I'm right do I win a prize?

Hope this helps folks!

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu