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