[Elecraft] Macintosh version of Elecraft KX3 Utility

[Wes]

Andy,

Maybe for some, but my eyes glaze over when you start talking about that stuff.  
I've already experienced the sunk costs for the old hardware.

Wes

On 3/27/2019 3:13 PM, Andy McMullin wrote:
> Wes,
>
> I wonder if a better answer would be to push for versions of the utilities that compile on an ARM chip so that it could be run on a Raspberry Pi. Particularly as it’s already been compiled for an X86 under Linux, so all the libraries should be there. I don’t think many of us would worry about spending 25 quid on a little computer to have just to run the utilities and maybe some of the modern digital modes?
>
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
>
>> On 27 Mar 2019, at 21:23, Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
>>
>> You could always do what some of us Windows users do; keep an old computer around with legacy OS.  My two shack computers and my office desktop still run Win 7 Pro.  To run my N2PK VNA, I have a laptop with a parallel port running WinXP and I think there is still a 386 laptop out in the garage somewhere with Win95, just in case :-)  Of course the latter two have no WiFi cards in them to avoid troubles.
>>
>> Wes  N7WS
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>> ps. My son, who is the IT Manager for a national corporation, thinks I'm a Luddite.
>>
>> On 3/27/2019 1:43 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>> Apple plans to not support 32 bit applications with the next major release of MacOS. This change will hit a number of ham radio applications as well as the Elecraft utilities.
>>>
>>> My favorite program for SO2V RTTY, cocoaModem is one of them, and there is no formal support for it, and the available sources won't build under the modern MacOS development environment.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping for a miracle.
>>>
>>> 73 Bill AE6JV
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