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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Mac Doom From:David Eric Dahl <ddahl -at- HARP -dot- AIX -dot- CALPOLY -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 17 Apr 1995 16:52:25 -0700
Exactly! PCs have finally caught up. FUNCTIONALITY isn't the issue
anymore. It's:
1) What the software runs on
2) What the user is comfortable with
3) Who you need to be compatible with
Mac+PC Dave
On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, Arlen P. Walker wrote:
> However, my DX4-100 not only has complete multimedia,
> 3-D CAD modeling and publishing capabilities, it also
> speaks and understands my voice commands.
> <This Rant(TM) is directed at Apple Marketing>
> One more good example of the Failure of Apple Marketing. Mac's were doing
speech
> synthesis ten years ago (anyone remember the Talking Moose?) and were also the
> first of the desktop machines to do speech recognition (not ten, but still
years
> ago, with Voice Navigator and similar products). Yet most folks still link
> Compaq in particular and PC's in general with both these functions, and
consider
> them relatively new developments in desktop machines.
> <end Rant(TM)>
> Have fun,
> Arlen
> Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
> DNRC 124
> Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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> In God we trust; all others must provide data.
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