[Elecraft] 32 bit Elecraft Utility Apps
Thorpe, Jeffrey
jthorpe at liberty.edu
Thu Apr 12 08:40:58 EDT 2018
Oh, and not to mention the Raspberry Pi. While it is a 64 bit Arm, Raspbian OS is still only 32 bit.
Jeff - kg7hdz
> On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Thorpe, Jeffrey <jthorpe at liberty.edu> wrote:
>
> I still occasionally use an older 2007 Macbook that will not run anything newer than OSX 10.6.8. It handles my radio apps just fine.
>
> Jeff - kg7hdz
>
>> On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:02 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good morning David,
>>
>> A curious bit of circumstance forced me to use an earlier version of the
>> Apple O/S recently. My old Mac Mini died when its UPS went hysterical and
>> cycled the power violently several times. I bought a new one, complete
>> with 16GB RAM and the 1TB Fusion Drive (and a new power backup system).
>>
>> My old Mini setup ran Parallels and Win7/64 so I could run several amateur
>> radio programs on it. When I tried partitioning the new drive for 250GB
>> for Boot camp. It wouldn't do it. There is a BUG in High Sierra that
>> causes this and I have informed Apple of it. They have had others report
>> the same. They had o way to fix it at the time I was having the problem
>> in late March.
>>
>> My solution was to wipe the new drive and install an earlier version -- in
>> this case 10.6 -- temporarily. The older disk utility will partition the
>> new drive the way I needed it. After installing Win7/64, I reinstalled
>> High Sierra and all was well.
>>
>> This is an example of how I had to drop back to an older O/S, if only
>> temporarily.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave, K4TO
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:59 AM, David Fleming via Elecraft <
>> elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes.. No worries. All new releases of the Mac and Linux versions of the
>>> Elecraft Utilities will be 64-bit. As a result, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
>>> will no longer be supported and users of 32-bit Linux will need to upgrade
>>> to a 64-bit distro. This will be a gradual process as new revisions of the
>>> Utilities are released.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, is anyone still using OS X 10.6?
>>>
>>> David, W4SMT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 12, 2018, 1:26:56 AM EDT, John_N1JM <johnn1jm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Apple is starting to push 64 bit apps on the Mac. Will these change to 64
>>> bit
>>> soon?
>>>
>>> 73, John N1JM
>>>
>>>
>>>
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