Re: The software I wish I had

Logan Shaw <lshaw-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Puckdropper wrote:
kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Artificial intellegence which recognizes owner's sounds and turnes
them 1 and 0s resulting with launching applications.

Got it, you need OS X for it, though.

No, you don't. It was available on the "AV" Macintoshes ("AV" meaning
"audiovisual", basically equating to Motorola 680x0 machines with a
DSP chip in them) with Mac OS 8, back in about 1995 or 1996.
Actually, it may have been Mac OS 7.x even.

Some more info:
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/computers/q660.html . Actually,
according to that, it was 1993.

- Logan

Ok, so you need Mac OS for it, then. Glad to expand my knowledge a bit,
and now I'm curious if Plaintalk would work on other machines... Like my
Power Mac G3.

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