12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
6:12 a.m.
On 12/12/11 5:26 AM, TeoZ wrote:
Well Apple put more effort into OSX then they did with their first UNIX
(A/UX). OSX pre 10.3.x sucks.
10.2 was the first OS X we found production-ready for graphic arts and
pre-press, but Adobe and Quark had a few years of catching up to do
after that before they could match the stability of OS9 workflows.
--T
----- Original Message ----- From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne
> On 11 December 2011 14:32, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ahahaha! Well, true. But it's changing. Don't forget that Mac OS X is
> officially UNIX?, as approved by the Open Group. And it's the most
> widely-licensed UNIX? there has ever been, either in terms of numbers
> of users or in terms of number of systems. I suspect that its sales of
> several hundred million licences means that it has outsold /all/ other
> commercial Unices there have ever been /put together/.
>
> (That's excluding the rather greater number of iPhones, iPads and iPod
> Touches, which run the same core OS with a different GUI.)
>
> And yet it's very friendly. Arguably the friendliest, most accessible
> modern desktop OS.
>
> Also, it might amuse ClassicCompers to know that there is now a
> community of people interested in running "classic" early versions of
> OS X on older Macs, especially PowerPC Macs. Our own Cameron Kaiser
> being something of a hero in this regard. ;?D
This is often done out of necessity - some software didn't make the
jump, and as Cameron points out, Apple is progressively obsoleting their
compatibility layers. I'm one of those people who keeps 10.4 around for
Classic.