[Ham-Mac] has anyone tried... Mac/Doze file transfers?

[Don Agro]

On 2-Jul-09, at 12:24 AM, Jack Brindle wrote:

> As for the 64-bit issue, remember that the Mac has been 64-bit for  
> some time. Existing drivers work quite well under Snow-Leopard (I'm  
> not currently under NDA, so I can speak), and we should not expect  
> any  change, or anything similar to what the Windows folks are  
> seeing. I honestly don't expect much of a change for Snow Leopard,  
> with the possible exception that applications that need lots of  
> memory (mostly graphics apps) which are written in Cocoa will be  
> able to take  advantage of a very large memory space and will gain  
> the additional registers the processor allows when 64-bit is enabled  
> (meaning the app will run a bit faster). Everything else will  
> continue to run quite nicely.


That's not quite right, and I am currently under NDA, but this is  
public knowledge...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/28/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bit_to_the_kernel.html

"Along with these advantages comes the necessity of upgrading all of  
the kernel's drivers to 64-bit, including any provided by third  
parties. Again, that's because 64-bit programs can't load and run 32- 
bit plugins, and vice versa. That means Mac users will need to do the  
same driver upgrade that Windows Vista users did."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/01/apple_pushes_devs_to_deliver_64_bit_support_with_new_snow_leopard_beta.html

"While relatively few third party developers create kernel-level  
software, the new operating system won't work in 64-bit if users lack  
64-bit versions of the kernel extensions (kexts) they need."

73 Don Agro VE3VRW