Re: What's the different between /tS/ as one phoneme and as two?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/21/04


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:09:52 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels writes:
>
> > OS X cannot run on my Performa.
>
> Surely there is adequate software available for the older version of the
> Mac. Mac users insist that their machines can do anything, so it must
> be true.

They are backward-compatible, to a considerable extent. (Hence "Classic
Mode" in OS X.) For them to be forward-compatible would require psychic
powers beyond those even of Steve Jobs.

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net


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