I didn't mean to imply otherwise. My curiosity was/is with the generation of the model in the link (especially compared to current models), hence the question i

I didn't mean to imply otherwise. My curiosity was/is with the generation of the model in the link (especially compared to current models), hence the question in my original post. There's also pitch accent that helps with disambiguation of spoken Japanese (I should know, I accidentally called a friend seaweed for a long time).