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 ><<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[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>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