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- From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: What's the deal with Macintalk?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:02:28 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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- In article <C1GpG9.FJI@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
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- >
- >The precise answer to his third question is "barely". It turns out that
- >the source code to Macintalk has been lost for many years (Apple bought
- >the binary program from a small company, which then proceeded to go bust
- >and disappear, leaving them with no source).
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- No. The small company did not go bust (they are currently porting
- their speech synthesis code for Suns, in fact). Apple did not wish to
- cut another `no sources' deal with them to update the code; or perhaps
- they held out for more money than Apple wanted to spend. My
- understanding is that the company is itself constrained from updating and
- marketing a new version of Macintalk in competition with Apple, so
- everyone is losing here.
-
- Mike Urban
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- urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
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