Chad Smith wrote:
On 3/8/06, Cees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JWK> It's not practically possible. MacOS 9 simply doesn't have the
necessary
JWK> features to support OOo.
huh?
Why on earth not???? I can run official Macromedia software but
not
OpenOffice?? That really does NOT sound logical.
Yeah - that's a pretty dumb thing to say. Mac OS 9 can run MS Office 2001
- which has nearly as many features, and more applications than OOo. Adobe
Photoshop, Acrobat, Pagemaker, etc - can all run on Mac OS 9 (older
versions, granted, but just as resource hungry - if not more so - than OOo).
It is a completely untrue statement.
OpenOffice.org could run just fine on Mac OS 9 if it was ported to that OS.
If you can run OOo on OS/2 - then Mac OS 9 can handle it.
This simply isn't true. The fact that a good many older programs, of the
same vintage as Windows 2 or Windows 3, can work on MacOS 9 does not
mean that a far more recent program can. OOo requires an operating
system with approximately the same facilities as Unix, and MacOS 9 is
not such a system. OS/2, like MacOS X, is.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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