Re: OS X Mountain Lion
Well, Jeff, I found AppleWorks, one of my favorite apps --
absolutely the best ever, all round integrated apps for the
administration and sales management of my business -- so crippled on
OS X that I gave it away years ago in disgust.
Apple made a pathetic job of carbonizing it, in my view. Not
nearly as good a job as e.g. Deneba did with Canvas. Even
Chronos's half-hearted job on Personal Organizer (another old app I'm
still using on SL) was better.
Cheers, geoff
At 3:56 PM +0800 15/6/12, Jeffrey Soden wrote:
Absolute rubbish!
I used to run OS2 (remember that)
so I could run DOS and windows 3.1 & 95 apps because windows 98
could not run them. XP wouldn't run many NT apps either. Good thing
for dual and triple boot! For vista and 7 you have to pay extra for XP
compatibility such that it is. I still can't Microsoft's own game pack
from XP to run on Windows 7.
With the Mac it's better, until Lion. I
could run apple works and most 68k software, though there were issues.
But as long as you stayed on the PowerPC platform they were small.
Lion changed everything. It's there line in the sand.
Jeff
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 15, 2012, at 14:12, Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Re: [Bulk] OS X Mountain
Lion
At 2:09 PM +1000 13/6/12, Brian Ferguson
wrote:
Some may not have been advised that this
new OS will be available from July for the grand cost of AUD19.99 from
the Mac App Store. I wonder what Windows OS costs now.
<http://www.apple.com/osx/?sr=hotnews.rss>
It appears as if the Mac version is
integrated with iPad and iPhone.
The overall cost of Windows OS is lower
because it has great backwards compatibility. I have been reliably
informed that that the current Windows OS will run apps your
grandfather (well not yours, perhaps, Brian, or mine either, but you
know . . . ) used back when God's dog was a pup.
But with OS X . . .
Oh dear, i remember the days when we used
to boast about the backward compatibility of Mac OS and laugh at
Windoze users. :(
Cheers, geoff