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

[Gerry Curry]

First, Yes I am running OS X on all the Macs here that can run it.

I have been testing/using the "next generation" MacOS since the start of
Rhapsody. I even have Rhapsody running on one of my DOS boxes. The rest of
the Macs use OS 8 or 9 and the other DOS boxes run Debian Linux or FreeBSD.

There's a whole lot of plusses and minuses about OS X but I would never want
to go back to an earlier OS on a full time basis. The stability,
multi-tasking, modern VM, etc. make it far too productive and enjoyable to
abandon.

I have three concerns with Apple's rush to push Coco.

1. It limits developers to one platform.
2. It requires developers to learn yet another programming language.
3. As far as I know it breaks with Mac tradition by eliminating the resource
fork and REQUIRES the use of file extensions, a highly retrograde step in my
estimation.

Gerry Curry
Curry Systems & Consulting
546 Cedar Lake Rd, R.R. 1
South Ohio, NS, B0W 3E0
phone (902) 649-2368   fax (902) 649-3191
gerry@currysystems.com
www.currysystems.com

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