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From: wrs@apple.com (Walter Smith)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 9 Jan 90 05:44:45 GMT
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In article <5985@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) 
writes:
> I'll bet Macintosh gurus somewhere are developing Russian system software, 
> if nobody hasn't already. Can the same be said for NeXT?

I certainly hope someone is making a Cyrillic system, since the US->Soviet 
trade barriers seem to be slowly melting away (and seeming more silly all 
the time).  We seem to have Arabic, British, Chinese, Dutch, Faeroese, 
Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese 
(Kanji), Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and 
Yugoslavian done already.  Even in 1984, as I recall, the Mac was the 
machine of choice for French homework, thanks to all those nifty extended
characters (hey, accented vowels instead of playing card symbols and smiley
faces--what an idea!).

- Walt

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