[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

[Steven M. Palm]

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 07:52  AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
> I'm curious how many hams are running OSX on their "primary" Mac.

  I wouldn't go back.  I now begrudge any task or program that makes me 
fire up Classic, not to mention reboot into MacOS 9.  I have switched 
some programs I use for various tasks just for that reason.

> Apple is telling developers not to grow attached to Carbon, and start
> developing Cocoa (OSX only) apps quickly. Yet I can't see this
> happening, there's a large installed base of older Macs that cannot run
> OSX.

  Yeah, but having never been a Mac programmer before, but coming from 
other systems, I have to say that Cocoa is a thing of beauty.  Apple 
knows that they can't make Carbon go away any time soon, becuase mega 
apps like Photoshop, M$ Office, Quark, etc, are all going to be Carbon.  
How could you ever really pull that carpet out from under them?  At the 
same time, though, I'd rather see Apple invest resources in bringing 
technologies into the Cocoa frameworks rather than Carbon 
implementations as time goes on.

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  - Steven M. Palm
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