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Article #12091Re: What's the deal with Macintalk?
From: Michael P Urban
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:02
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:02
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In article <C1GpG9.FJI@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes: > >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). 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 urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sideshow!urban 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1k6bmkINNlot@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <21717@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1993Jan26.045957.12738@netcom.com> <C1GpG9.FJI@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> Reply-To: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban) NNTP-Posting-Host: sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov