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

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:11:43 +0000

on 31/1/02 1:52 pm, Chris Smolinski at [email protected] wrote:

> I'm curious how many hams are running OSX on their "primary" Mac. I made
> the switch about 3 months ago (after spending about a year flipping back
> and forth between 9.1 and 10.0.x) after 10.1 came out, which was a big
> improvement. I like the stability of OSX, and by running it exclusively,
> I hope to prod myself to work faster on MultiMode OSX ;-)

I am trying to change over to OSX at GM4JJJ bbut there are still many show
stoppers, like neither of my Epson Inkjet printers are supported :-(

I also need to save up for Entourage for OSX (Office X).

No Driver for USB webcamera

No Palm Hotsync - in Beta

No Ricoh Camera USB connection

> 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. Based on the System 7 experience, my guess is that most apps will
> continue to be Carbon for at least 2-3 years.

As I program in REALBasic I will continue to make Carbon and Windows
applications. I recently made my first carbon version of MoonSked (MoonSked
X) and it has had a relatively large number of downloads which did surprise
me. Maybe it is just the novelty factor?

73
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David Anderson, GM4JJJ         E-mail: [email protected]
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