Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!mjohnson From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: No Macintalk in system 7? (was Re: Moose and SE/30) Message-ID: <39340@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 9 Mar 90 07:49:46 GMT References: <48744@coherent.coherent.com> <3564@infmx.UUCP> <49013@coherent.coherent.com> <32015@brunix.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 25 In article <32015@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes: > >Here's another Apple misteak! Before pulling the plug on good ole >Macintalk, Apple should instead be rolling out its replacement. >Apple has been "committed to providing the developer community with >an array of speech technologies" for several years now but has done >*nothing!* The fact that this has been cut off without providing for >a replacement seems to indicate quite strongly that there is nothing >in the channel now and won't be for some time. > Apple is not "pulling the plug" on MacinTalk--it has not been supported for years. One must also realize that in order to avoid the same mistake that we have in this case, Apple is not just going to provide some interim sound solution which will again break after another system software release. It is important for Apple, for developers, and most of all the users that we provide a SOLUTION to the problem, not just another problem. Unfortunately, that solution takes a little longer than we would all like. -- Mark B. Johnson AppleLink: mjohnson Developer Technical Support domain: mjohnson@Apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach, _One_