Oh, and not to mention the Raspberry Pi. While it is a 64 bit Arm, Raspbian OS is still only 32 bit.
Jeff - kg7hdz > On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Thorpe, Jeffrey <jtho...@liberty.edu> wrote: > > I still occasionally use an older 2007 Macbook that will not run anything > newer than OSX 10.6.8. It handles my radio apps just fine. > > Jeff - kg7hdz > >> On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:02 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good morning David, >> >> A curious bit of circumstance forced me to use an earlier version of the >> Apple O/S recently. My old Mac Mini died when its UPS went hysterical and >> cycled the power violently several times. I bought a new one, complete >> with 16GB RAM and the 1TB Fusion Drive (and a new power backup system). >> >> My old Mini setup ran Parallels and Win7/64 so I could run several amateur >> radio programs on it. When I tried partitioning the new drive for 250GB >> for Boot camp. It wouldn't do it. There is a BUG in High Sierra that >> causes this and I have informed Apple of it. They have had others report >> the same. They had o way to fix it at the time I was having the problem >> in late March. >> >> My solution was to wipe the new drive and install an earlier version -- in >> this case 10.6 -- temporarily. The older disk utility will partition the >> new drive the way I needed it. After installing Win7/64, I reinstalled >> High Sierra and all was well. >> >> This is an example of how I had to drop back to an older O/S, if only >> temporarily. >> >> 73, >> >> Dave, K4TO >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:59 AM, David Fleming via Elecraft < >> elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: >> >>> Yes.. No worries. All new releases of the Mac and Linux versions of the >>> Elecraft Utilities will be 64-bit. As a result, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) >>> will no longer be supported and users of 32-bit Linux will need to upgrade >>> to a 64-bit distro. This will be a gradual process as new revisions of the >>> Utilities are released. >>> >>> Out of curiosity, is anyone still using OS X 10.6? >>> >>> David, W4SMT >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 12, 2018, 1:26:56 AM EDT, John_N1JM <johnn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Apple is starting to push 64 bit apps on the Mac. Will these change to 64 >>> bit >>> soon? >>> >>> 73, John N1JM >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to k...@arrl.net >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to jtho...@liberty.edu ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
