[Ham-Mac] ARRL discrimination - Think different

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On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 07:09  AM, Chuck Counselman wrote:
> At 8:52 AM -0500 5/19/03, Steven M.Palm wrote:
>> ...I ported the EchoMac program over to the Mac. I don't even use it 
>> myself, but I ported it because I thought others might. However, I 
>> don't think the number of users of that, even being a FREE program, 
>> is very high. VersionTracker shows 536 total downloads, MacUpdate 
>> shows 344, so that isn't even a thousand users.
>
> I'm not complaining; I think it's great that you ported EchoMac to the 
> Mac OS; but the reason I don't use it is that I can't, because all of 
> my Macs run OS 9.x (not OS X).  Even the Mac that I bought new this 
> year and that came with OS X installed, uses OS 9 -- because I have 
> many Macs and, for simplicity/reliability/redundancy, I like to keep 
> the same system and same applications on all of them.

  I totally understand, Chuck. I wish I could have supported MacOS 9, 
and even down to 8 or 7, but too many of the things involved in the 
port would only work in MacOS X due to it's BSD Unix core. If I could 
have done it differently, I would have. I haven't developed anything 
for the older MacOS and the learning curve was too steep to climb for 
this project.

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  - Steven M. Palm
  - Ham Radio Call: N9YTY
  - Attempts to make thine own star shine shall lead thee into darkness.
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