F. Jilek (o) wrote: > on 19.3.2003 02:56, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>OSX is built for new Macs...that the Beige G3's are supported is gravy. >>New macs have not come with serial ports for years, so there was no > > > Aren't we on lowend mac list? Nobody is using 7x00 and similar macs with > upgrades here?
Yes *we* are, but the company paying for the R&D to make OSX surely isn't. For the billionth time. Apple is a hardware company. here, I'll say it again a few times: Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company. They make their money by selling new Macs. OSX is an incentive they add in to get you to want to buy a Mac. People using 5 and 7-year old Macs are not the major consideration in their decisions of what to support. They're not a *minor* consideration in these decisions. > >>good reason for Apple to re-engineer Unix to support serial printers. No, it would be a *poor* business decision for Apple to spend any time on 're-engineering' their system to support hardware they no longer make. OSX runs on the systems they support it on because it will run on them, not because they wrote it to run on them. They wrote their OS to run on the computers they were shipping when they wrote it. This is a huge distinction. This is why I say support for the old systems is 'gravy'. Any changes they make to the OS will be to enhance their system's performance on *currently shipping* hardware, and a moving window of recent systems. The moment the choice becomes "Update OSX to do XYZ on our current systems, or rewrite it so it'll run on a Beige G3" the update wins out, and that revision cuts out the older Macs, just as 8.0 cut out all but 68040's and 8.6 cut out all but PowerPC systems. You have an old, obsolete Mac; do not expect Apple to pay a whole lot of attention and spend money to meet *your* needs for that system. > > Do you mean that just Apple want to throw another roadblock to old world mac > or it would be soooo time comsuming to enable serial printing. Apple *does*not*care* about people using Old World systems. Steve isn't cackling in his office wondering what he's going to do next to us poor stalwarts with duct-taped 8600's with third-party processors and shareware hacks to thwart us, he does not care. Unsupported systems simply do not register in the slightest with Apple. That's the *whole* meaning of the freakin' word *UNSUPPORTED* >>That said, were someone willing to do the work, a serial printer driver >>for OSX is entirely possible, since OSX 10.2 supports CUPS, a standard >>printing technology. > > > And CUPS would take care about drivers. > > Apple or Steve! just enable serial port for printing. Thanks! :-) <sigh> *IT IS ENABLED FOR PRINTING!!!* It is a perfectly fine, working serial port. Apple did NOT port Localtalk or serial print drivers because they no longer make or sell them, nor do they sell computers that can run them. Epson, et. al. only support newer USB printers for OS X. No one ships a serial printer driver for OSX because serial printers are *obsolete*. Getting your old printer to work will mean *you* rewriting Localtalk to work under Unix. Have fun stormin' the castle! > I thing that for years and years of waiting for modern and fast system they > should give final version for free. We got modern but not fast at all. > Question is what is final version. 10.2? 10.3? :-) Why on earth do you expect them to *give* you anything??? If you want 'free as in beer' software, get Linux, and deal with all of the hassles and shortcomings of Linux. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
