Re: Upgrading without central packaging

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Upgrading without central packaging
Date: 02:11 on 24 Apr 2005

> Whole new class of hate: supporting MacOS Classic.  Its hard enough having
> to deal with Windows 9x, Windows NT, VMS and all the scattered Unixen out 
> there, at least they're on speaking terms with POSIX.  MacOS Classic does
> EVERYTHING differently and in 1988 this might have been interesting but in
> 2005 its just embarassing.  I would rather (and do) code for VMS than 
> MacOS Classic and I HATE VMS.

Which brings us back to the "everything is really UNIX" meme.

> So who's shelling out $140 for 10.4?

I'm shelling out $70 for it.

> How long to you think it will be before
> it becomes impossible to find 10.3 software?

I'm still running 10.2 on some of mine.

> Hate.  But 10.1 and 10.2 were
> so hateful I can understand why folks dropped it like a hot iron.

10.1, yes.

10.2 was in some ways (Finder, [insert HATE here]) better than 10.3.

There's stuff above here

Michael G Schwern 23:29 on 23 Apr 2005
- peter (Peter da Silva) 02:11 on 24 Apr 2005
  - Michael G Schwern 02:58 on 24 Apr 2005
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- peter (Peter da Silva) 15:38 on 24 Apr 2005
Re: Sending mail (was Re: Upgrading without central packaging) Chris Devers 18:19 on 24 Apr 2005
- Re: Sending mail Daniel Pittman 00:48 on 25 Apr 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 01:02 on 25 Apr 2005
Xtina 17:01 on 26 Apr 2005
- Simon Wistow 17:06 on 26 Apr 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 18:19 on 26 Apr 2005
- Earle Martin 01:22 on 03 May 2005
peter (Peter da Silva) 17:37 on 26 Apr 2005
- John Sinteur 17:41 on 26 Apr 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 04:31 on 27 Apr 2005
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- Darrell Fuhriman 17:49 on 26 Apr 2005
- David Cantrell 17:51 on 26 Apr 2005
Arthur Bergman 18:45 on 26 Apr 2005
- Nicholas Clark 18:51 on 26 Apr 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 00:39 on 27 Apr 2005
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  - Re: Subversion Jarkko Hietaniemi 05:46 on 27 Apr 2005
Re: Subversion Robert G. Werner 02:10 on 27 Apr 2005
- Juerd 09:59 on 27 Apr 2005
Yoz Grahame 17:38 on 27 Apr 2005
- Simon Wistow 18:10 on 27 Apr 2005
Michael G Schwern 01:36 on 28 Apr 2005
- Aaron J. Grier 19:14 on 29 Apr 2005

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