In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:30:48PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > For Photoshop CS and Office 2004 - pretty good. I don't see anything > > in that list that precludes them working. As for netboot - nfi. > Some more info: > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/systemreqs.html says: > Macintosh > * PowerPC?? G3, G4, or G5 processor
So, you're saying that since it works with G3, it'll work correctly with Rosetta and it will be good enough? Fair enough, I guess it's a good criterion for the time being, as long as there is no confusion about endianism assumptions. You'd think that wouldn't be a problem, wouldn't you? But here's a counterexample: Once upon a time, I ran into a real brainteaser. Windows machines would hang or crash when dealing with certain data streams, whereas Mac and Linux clients had no trouble. It turned out to be a problem with the data streams...but why no trouble with Mac OS and Linux? Well, it turned out to be a linefeed problem! The default linefeed format should have been DOS format, so Windows apps started off with the assumption that no kind of verification or conversion was needed. In contrast, every Mac and Linux app assumed that conversion *was* required. Hence, when the wrong linefeeds were presented, the Mac and Linux programmes managed (by luck, in a sense) to "work it out" whereas Windows apps choked utterly. The "goodness" or "badness" or programmes' behaviour was unrelated to the vendor or version -- it split platform-wise every time.
