The Apple technote is here. The condensed version: at the price of breaking a few pieces of software that relied on an undocumented API call, the open file limit went from 348 to 8169.
The first computer I ever used was an Apple ][+, but jeez -- if they'd wasted time trying to make the early Macs backwards compatible with Apple ]['s they would have never gotten them out of the door. One of the reasons so many computers are such a complete pain in the ass today is the degree of reverse compatibility they maintain with the IBM PC Model 5150 from 1981.
I have BeOS installed on a spare drive on my home Mac, and on a spare partition on my work PC. I've used it since the Preview Release (i.e. 1997) I love the snappy feel of the OS, and particularly the strong underpinnings the OS has for real time applications like audio. The fact is, though, that there's been precious little (detectable) forward motion in the OS (from a user point of view) since the preview release 18 or so months ago. It seems like so much of their effort is being split trying to support umpteen million video card, sound card, and motherboard combinations while the stuff that drew me to the OS back in '97 has slowed to a crawl. Anyway, I wish Be luck, but for me that boat's already sailed.
Their TCP/IP stack can't handle ftping at more that 10KB/s on a 10BaseT connection to the server that is 20 feet away...
This is just silly. I used to routinely approach 500 k/s with Anarchie as far back as System 7.5. At home now Anarchie can completely saturate my cable-modem connection in both directions. Your exaggerations weaken your argument.
You're comparing apples and oranges (ow ow sorry!) I mean x86 boxes and Macs. Don't forget how cool the G3 series chips run (they produce ~40% less heat at a given clock speed, IIRC)
I'll spare you any comment on the floppy issue. Suffice to say I can't remember the last time I used the floppy drive on my Mac for anything (honestly!)
I've successfully run everything between 7.6 and 8.6 on a UMAX S900 w/ a Newer Tech G3 card. I had to manually update my hard disk & CD Rom drivers (no big deal), but otherwise I've had no substantive problems even though 7.6.1 is the last MacOS release that "officially" supports my hardware. According to MacOS Rumors (admittedly not a definitive source of info but I tend to trust them on things like this) the MacOS 9.0 final candidate successfully runs on Umax, Starmax, and Power Computing hardware as well.
Realistically speaking, the Umax S9xx series (not sure about other clone brands) are so close to the Apple 8x00/9x00 boxes hardware-wise that Apple would have a tough time breaking the OS on these clones without breaking it on a _lot_ of Apple-branded hardware as well.
Adobe Illustrator '88 followed Illustrator 1.0 What was really nasty though was that they didn't ship Illustrator 3.0 until late '91 or '92, which is the reason I suspect they went back to standard version numbers...
Not only that, but just last week I was doing a CD swap with a fellow living in Taipei, Taiwan. I'd absentmindedly procrastinated sending off my end of the trade, and realized on Saturday that I'd let it sit for _weeks_. I ran down to the postal mini mart (conveniently located inside the neighborhood K-Mart) and sent the package via Global Priority mail. Yeah, it cost my 6 bucks, but the package I mailed from Detroit on Saturday was in this guys hands in Taipei on Tuesday. Detroit to Taipei in 3 days for $6. You can't beat that with a stick!
Exactly. With the caveat that I haven't actually looked at the relevant source, I'd have to imagine that the Darwin source provides them with all the G3-specific info they'd need to add support for current Apple hardware. They appear simply not to be interested (beyond lip-service) to processor agnosticism.
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A correction there -- all the Tomb raider games have released more or less simulaneously on PC & Playstation.
Probably the best info on Mac OSX Client can be found at X-Appeal.
There is a small movement among a few electronic musicians that has some parallels to the Open Source movement:
Musicians Against the Copyrighting Of Samples.
The Apple technote is here. The condensed version: at the price of breaking a few pieces of software that relied on an undocumented API call, the open file limit went from 348 to 8169.
The first computer I ever used was an Apple ][+, but jeez -- if they'd wasted time trying to make the early Macs backwards compatible with Apple ]['s they would have never gotten them out of the door. One of the reasons so many computers are such a complete pain in the ass today is the degree of reverse compatibility they maintain with the IBM PC Model 5150 from 1981.
I have BeOS installed on a spare drive on my home Mac, and on a spare partition on my work PC. I've used it since the Preview Release (i.e. 1997) I love the snappy feel of the OS, and particularly the strong underpinnings the OS has for real time applications like audio. The fact is, though, that there's been precious little (detectable) forward motion in the OS (from a user point of view) since the preview release 18 or so months ago. It seems like so much of their effort is being split trying to support umpteen million video card, sound card, and motherboard combinations while the stuff that drew me to the OS back in '97 has slowed to a crawl. Anyway, I wish Be luck, but for me that boat's already sailed.
Their TCP/IP stack can't handle ftping at more that 10KB/s on a 10BaseT connection to the server that is 20 feet away...
This is just silly. I used to routinely approach 500 k/s with Anarchie as far back as System 7.5. At home now Anarchie can completely saturate my cable-modem connection in both directions. Your exaggerations weaken your argument.
You're comparing apples and oranges (ow ow sorry!) I mean x86 boxes and Macs. Don't forget how cool the G3 series chips run (they produce ~40% less heat at a given clock speed, IIRC)
I'll spare you any comment on the floppy issue. Suffice to say I can't remember the last time I used the floppy drive on my Mac for anything (honestly!)
Um (donning rubber waders and gloves) you wouldn't happen to have the addresses of those dumpsters, would you? ;)
I've successfully run everything between 7.6 and 8.6 on a UMAX S900 w/ a Newer Tech G3 card. I had to manually update my hard disk & CD Rom drivers (no big deal), but otherwise I've had no substantive problems even though 7.6.1 is the last MacOS release that "officially" supports my hardware. According to MacOS Rumors (admittedly not a definitive source of info but I tend to trust them on things like this) the MacOS 9.0 final candidate successfully runs on Umax, Starmax, and Power Computing hardware as well.
Realistically speaking, the Umax S9xx series (not sure about other clone brands) are so close to the Apple 8x00/9x00 boxes hardware-wise that Apple would have a tough time breaking the OS on these clones without breaking it on a _lot_ of Apple-branded hardware as well.
Adobe Illustrator '88 followed Illustrator 1.0 What was really nasty though was that they didn't
ship Illustrator 3.0 until late '91 or '92, which is the reason I suspect they went back to standard version numbers...
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Exactly. Ever read Paradise Lost?
Looks like the Voodoo 4 (or whatever they end up calling it) wi ll support the G4 Macs out of the
box.
Not only that, but just last week I was doing a CD swap with a fellow living in Taipei, Taiwan. I'd absentmindedly procrastinated sending off my end of the trade, and realized on Saturday that I'd let it sit for _weeks_. I ran down to the postal mini mart (conveniently located inside the neighborhood K-Mart) and sent the package via Global Priority mail. Yeah, it cost my 6 bucks, but the package I mailed from Detroit on Saturday was in this guys hands in Taipei on Tuesday. Detroit to Taipei in 3 days for $6. You can't beat that with a stick!
Exactly. With the caveat that I haven't
actually looked at the relevant source,
I'd have to imagine that the Darwin source
provides them with all the G3-specific
info they'd need to add support for current
Apple hardware. They appear simply
not to be interested (beyond lip-service)
to processor agnosticism.