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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Long Live Macintalk!
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.024332.495@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 90 02:43:32 GMT
References: <14377@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <39322@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <39322@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

-No. The reason is simple: Macintalk (which in my Humble Opinion is a
-primitive hack at best, anyway) was developed for Apple by a third party.
-For various reasons, no source code to Macintalk is in existence. The only
-thing Apple HAS is the binary that is shipped. You cannot maintain, enhance
-or change something you can't touch, and without source, you can't touch it.

So what's MacNosy? Chopped liver?  Of course you have enough source.  Unless
Apple doesn't want to (or can't because of contract reasons) look at it.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)