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Eric Ray reported: <<[Framemaker for UNIX on Mac OS] They're not at all
compatible. Software (like Frame) must be compiled to run on a specific
operating system & specific hardware.>>
Yup. Though this begs the question of how difficult it would really be
for Adobe to recompile Frame for Unix so that it ran under the OS-X
flavor of Unix. Not trivial, certainly, but doable.
<<A better approach would be running (assuming they still exist) SoftPC
and Frame for Windows under that.>>
Microsoft still sells Virtual PC for the Mac, and it runs acceptably
well for some things (e.g., typing and editing, simple Web browsing,
RoboWhatever). But it's a poor solution for processor-intensive work
such as Photoshop; it works, and may even work faster than we could
work on a PC three years ago, but it's still not as efficient as
switching to the PC for PC-only graphics software. Fortunately, most
processor-intensive software is available in Mac versions or has good
competing products available for the Mac.
I believe that Frame 7 is the final Mac release, and it (and certainly
Frame 6) runs just fine on Mac OS 9.2, which is the "classic"
environment that you can run via OS X. All that's missing is a future
upgrade path, but if the current software meets your needs now, there's
little need for an upgrade path. The only really good reason to require
that upgrade path is to obtain new features that perform tasks you
can't accomplish with the current version. In many cases, the only good
that comes from upgrading is to reward the software developer's
stockholders (cf. Word XP and 2003).
--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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