Thanks for the explanation Jason, I won't say its all clear now but I
do understand better.
So now all we have to do is find some software genius that can create
a soundmodem equivalent for us.
Yea, that'll happen!
On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Keith Kaiser <[email protected]>
wrote:
Technically Xastir doesn't run on Mac's either but it does run in
X11 which
in the case of the Mac is running on BSD Unix. Or maybe I
misunderstand the
relationship of one to the other something that is not unlikely.
Anyway I was thinking soundmodem would run there as opposed to
actually
running on OSX.
OS X _is_ BSD unix. It's not some sort of emulation mode.
xastir _does_ run (directly, natively) on OS X, just like it does on
other
BSD unices.
X11 is a windowing graphics system. It is not the native graphics
for OS X
applications, but it is an OS X subsystem. This was rather typical
years
ago, as workstation manufacturers (Sun, SGI, etc) had their native
graphics
mode with good performance, but also had X11 for portability. The
X11 server
must be running for xastir to have some display support.
soundmodem uses the linux kernel; OS X runs the BSD kernel. They have
different sound system interfaces. This is why soundmodem doesn't
work on OS
X.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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