I am reading this from a media professional and presentational standpoint.
There were ISO cards that crated extra serial ports, and there were ISO
cards that provided speech. Those might not have been the same thing.
Further I believe Samuel means the serial port was virtual, from a
programming point of view, not necessarily a physical port correct?
Additionally, will the talk also address some of speakups weaknesses?
that unlike many screen readers common over time, speakup requires
the user to remove their hands from the main keyboard to operate?
Additionally that drivers for popular synthesizers existing in other
programs, the reading edge for example, were never created?
Lastly, the is not it awesome! approach regarding how the program was
started by programmers who happened to be blind sort of screams
generalized stereotype.
I mean there are Astor physicists who happen to experience blindness, but
not all those experiencing blindness are or even can be astrophysicists.
Talking about the people behind this program as if they are a generalized
whole does not teach your audience much.
Kare
On Sat, 30 Mar 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Gregory Nowak, le ven. 29 mars 2019 17:02:07 -0700, a ecrit:
people would either plug an
external device or even put an ISA card in their computer, which gives
them an additional serial port.
The ISA cards also provided an internal speech synthesizer.
Right, that's what I meant :)
The "additional serial port" was meant from a programming point of view.
Samuel
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