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Re: KanjiTalk on MacII?

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From: Adel Talaat Assaad
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 14:39
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Hi,
I bought the Script Manager Developer's Package a LOOONG time ago,
(that was version 1.0). This package included among other things the
KanjiTalk 1.1 and the Arabic Interface System 1.1, plus some notes on
compatiblity, testing, release notes, etc..

Page 2 states:
"Both KanjiTalk 1.1 and AIS 1.1 are compatible with te Macintosh Plus.
The Macintosh SE and Macintosh II versions of KanjiTalk and AIS were
still under development when this document was written."

The Arabic package, incidentally, works VERY marginally on my MacII, and
that's being polite, considering it has the old control panels and
all sorts of dinosaurish features. So I am indeed sure they were both NOT
intended to work on an SE or a II.

Two possibilities exist:

 1) Either Apple is still selling the same old stuff, except they
don't tell it won't work on anything but a Mac Plus ( and they really
should STOP doing that!). Depending on when you bought your own copy,
that may very well be the case, since YOUR version number is the SAME
as the one I have.

or

2) They released more or less "Universal" versions under the same
version number, in which case I don't know how on god's earth they
expected me to find out about it, considering that the listing in
APDAlog didn't change.

I do think, however, that there isn't yet a MacSE/II-compatible version.
Does anyone know better?
A. Assaad
CMU, PGH, PA.

Disclaimer: I am a bit ticked off by the "corporate" attitude
pervading the new APDAlog. Take my harshness towards Apple with a
grain of salt.
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