[WinMac] RE: Comments
Omar Chávez(OmarChavez[at]fliteline.usa.com)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:54:21 -0400
Dear Dan,
I am glad you have corrected your error in regards to Mac OS X
(which I can't wait to get my hands on, by the way ;-))
I also agree with you on the tremendous amount of goodwill that
Apple would get if it could deliver its best OS to the 604 line.
However, I disagree with your statement saying: "the dozens of 604-based
...[systems]... I have recommended and installed are soon going
> to be commercially obsolete." The Mac OS continues and will continue
> to be improved for at least another two years, so a 604 system will
> still be able to run Apple's latest OS well into the year 2000.
>
Lastly, please keep in mind that the purpose of this list is to exchange
information about integrating Macintosh and Windows systems. Excuse me
if I am harsh, but I feel that rants and emotionally-charged comments
are out of place.
Please keep on sharing your technical expertise and your opinions. I
assure you they are appreciated and sought after.
Omar Chávez
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> ----------
> From: Dan Schwartz
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Comments
>
>
> Dear Brian and Al; and everyone else:
>
> Please see my post correcting my error on OS X. It was sent to
> the WinMac
> list Monday at 12:15PM EDT. Below is the full text, including headers.
>
> As for Apple screwing over the millions of owners of 60x series
> machines,
> I stand firmly behind that statement. The 44xx, 63xx, 64xx, and 65xx
> series
> machines are still available NEW in the distribution channels
>
> I can accept that NuBus PowerPC machines would not be supported:
> I was
> tipped off to this issue on the BeOS site at:
> <http://www.be.com/support/qandas/powermac.html>, and:
> <http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_ppc.html>;
> In re your argument about 486 support:
> A) There are still 486 machines on the Microsoft HCL (Hardware
> Compatibility List) <http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl/default.htm>
> for
> NT4, such as the Compaq Prosignia VS;
> B) The Mach kernel (as well as Linux) will run nicely on a 486,
> so CPU
> "horsepower" is not an issue for OS/X;
> C) The 486 CPU was replaced by the Pentium series over 4 years
> ago...
> About the same time as the original PowerMacs shipped in March, 1994
>
> As I said before, I'm fed up with Steve Jobs' littering my
> customers with
> machines and software where support is killed off. AIX and the Network
> Server 500's & 700's are a classic example. And let's not forget A/UX
> on
> the Workgroup Server 95's, either. Or Pixar Showplace and Typestry for
> MacOS & Windows... Remember, Jobs owns Pixar, too.
>
> Pissed off former MacOS evangelist,
> Daniel L. Schwartz
>
> ---------------
>
> I stand corrected... OS X and the "Carbon" API was not clearly
> defined
> when I read about it in MacWeek when it was announced.
>
> >At 01:02 AM 10/12/98 -0400, Dan Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Al:
> >>
> >> You are confusing "Rhapsody," NeXTStep, and OS X...
> >> NeXTStep was Steve Jobs' OS based on the Mach kernel (Carnegie
> Mellon)
> UNIX;
> >> "Rhapsody" was supposed to be Apple's implementation of
> NeXTStep, with the
> >>Yellow Box and Blue Box;
> >> OS X is simply a cleaned up extension of MacOS 8... It has
> nothing to do
> >>with any form of UNIX.
> >> Just another form of Jobs' doubletalk... OS X is still the
> MacOS; and more
> >>importantly lacking NT's, OpenVMS,' and UNIX' protected memory and
> >>multitasking.
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