Jim,
You are absolutely correct - it is not FLEX's fault. But, there is no
fault, per se. Sure, the bios and drivers may be proprietary to Apple,
just like any particular PC manufacturer's bios is considered to be
proprietary to that particular manufacturer. Apple has to provide
drivers to map keyboard, mouse, and other overhead functions into the
MS world. However, a case in point: if you take the service control
thread from today and try to turn things off or modify behavior, the
Boot Camp/MS OS user finds that the behavior is identical to a PC from
any PC manufacturer. When Apple finally decided to abandon the Power
PC and use Intel guts, they also made a marketing commitment to create
and maintain Boot Camp. I use a number of engineering application
software packages (MatLab, just to name one, that is a serious, high
powered windows only application, not a toy) that are only supported
under Windows. They all install and behave normally. I certainly did
NOT update to an iMAC and Boot Camp just for Amateur Radio. Apple is
committed to this duality. Us iMAC users enjoy the best of both worlds.
Bob KF6BC
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Jim Barber wrote:
My interpretation of the point is that Apple PC's specifically
*aren't* "Standard PC's". There are non-trivial differences that set
them apart for these purposes.
Mantra: At least in this particular, isolated case it just ain't
Flex's fault.
My .02,
Jim Barber, N7CXI
Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Tim Ellison<telli...@itsco.com>
wrote:
Folks,
As per the FlexRadio Users Reflector description (http://www.flex-radio.com/Support.aspx?topic=Reflector_Description
), any discussion regarding the operation of FlexRadio's products
on unsupported hardware, such as the iMacs needs to be moved to
the FlexEdge Reflector.
I thought that any PC running Windows XP was standard. So what you
are
saying is that Windows XP computers from Dell, HP, IBM, Toshiba,
Acer,
Asus, Gateway, and Grandma's Custom Computer and Grocery Emporium is
supported but Apple is not? Seems odd to me given that Apple is one
of
the largest suppliers of standard PC hardware these days.
I would certainly agree if we were talking about running the
experimental versions of PowerSDR but are talking about just running
standard Windows XP on a Standard PC made by Apple running the
standard released software from Flex.
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