Rick,
Re "I am of the opinion that the ability to run
virtual machines (Parallels, Fusion, etc) on the
Mac wound up costing us a lot of good Ham
software. Too often the answer given for running
ham software on the Mac is to run it under
Parallels, etc. If that option wasn't there I bet
more talented programmers would have jumped in and
written Mac specific software."
I'd not blame the virtual machines too quickly. I
run Windows 7 on both my Macs, using Bootcamp
(which is provided as part of OS X by Apple).
Parallels gave me problems in times past, and with
solid-state drives in each machine, rebooting
takes little time.
If anyone is to blame (is that the right word?)
it's Apple for switching from Power PC CPUs to
Intel CPUs, making it possible to run Windows,
etc. on a Mac.
73, Phil W7OX
On 2/12/15 8:56 AM, Rick Prather wrote:
When the Memory Manager first came out it was said that it would be ported
to the Mac soon. That was about three years ago...
Don't know what happened.
David you bring up an interesting topic. I am of the opinion that the
ability to run virtual machines (Parallels, Fusion, etc) on the Mac wound
up costing us a lot of good Ham software. Too often the answer given for
running ham software on the Mac is to run it under Parallels, etc.
If that option wasn't there I bet more talented programmers would have
jumped in and written Mac specific software.
Good news is that I see more and more interest in doing that with new
software such as JT-Bridge being worked on. Also, Tom DL2RUM is working on
an update to his RUMlog called RUMlogNG. For the DX'er RUMlog on the Mac
is as close as you can get to DXLabs on the PC.
I hope we see more in the future. There really are a lot of Hams that run
Macs and would like to stay within OS X for their software.
Rick
K6LE
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