Thanks. Thursday, October 30, 200811:05 AMLee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Oct 29, at 1:11 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> 1) would Appleworks continue to work in future versions of the OS - >> the >> answers ranged from I don't know to probably not. > >I don't know how long it will continue to work, but you can make your >own judgement from the history of the port over to Mac OS X. > >Back when Apple was preparing Mac OS X, they announced that programs >could run in three modes: Classic, Carbon and Cocoa. You might >remember the charts with three boxes that used to show on the big >screen behind the Stevenotes. > >Classic is basically a sandboxed version of Mac OS 9 running under Mac >OS X so all the older programs would continue to work. It was >discontinued with Leopard. > >Cocoa is the native Mac OS X programming interface that was inherited >from NeXTSTEP and it continues to be enhanced. All new programs are >written using the Cocoa programming interface because they can then >take advantage of all the new features of the operating system. The >Cocoa programs have also run faster from the very first version of Mac >OS X. > >Carbon was written as a transitional programming interface. It >contains Mac OS X versions of the standard programming routines from >Mac OS 9. It was included in the original Mac OS X to make it easier >for Mac programmers to port their programs into Mac OS X. At the time >it was announced, Apple made it clear they thought Carbon was an ugly >wart on the nose of Mac OS X and would be going away. > >As demonstrations of Carbon, Apple released two sacrificial lambs: >Finder and Appleworks. The next release of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, has >a completely Cocoa Finder, but apparently still supports the Carbon >interface. (It does drop support for non-Intel Macs.) > >Apple has not touched the Appleworks code in about ten years and >clearly does not intend a Cocoa re-write. So, Appleworks will >apparently still run in Snow Leopard, but the handwriting on the wall >is getting clearer. > >PS/ I stopped using Appleworks many years ago because it has so many >annoying bugs with fonts and the clipboard. It was pretty clear these >would never be fixed. I now use NeoOffice for most of my office-type >stuff. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: [email protected] >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
