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- From: davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Truth in Advertising (can the PowerBook talk?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.163529.7193@SSD.intel.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:35:29 GMT
- Sender: usenet@SSD.intel.com
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- Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
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- The other day I saw one of those PowerBook ads that said (paraphrase):
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- It lets you run Macintosh software.
- It lets you run PC software.
- It lets you run away.
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- It can talk to networks.
- It can talk to mainframes.
- It can talk.
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- I've seen this ad dozens of times before, but this time I suddenly
- wondered about that last line. I've heard that Macintalk doesn't work
- under System 7, and the PowerBooks only run System 7 (officially).
- Therefore Macintalk doesn't work on the PowerBook, and I'm not aware of
- any commercially-available (actually released, not just vaporware)
- speech software other than Macintalk.
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- Can the PowerBook really talk, or is Apple talking through its hat?
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- - David D. Levine, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division == davidl@ssd.intel.com
- "Dr. Langley taught me to sing a song. Would you like to hear it?"
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