RE: (X10) Exchanging events between OS 9 and OS X machines
RE: (X10) Exchanging events between OS 9 and OS X machines
- Subject: RE: (X10) Exchanging events between OS 9 and OS X machines
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:22:48 EDT
Oh, yet another rant from the fields...
Rob,
Do you really have to rush out and replace your X-10
backbone CPU just because you chose to switch your main
computer to OS X 10.2? Is releasing OS X 10.2 and saying OS
9 is dead really a nepharious plan on the part of Apple to
force home automation buffs to buy new hardware? Hardly.
On the other hand, is it realistic to expect a company the
size of Apple to stop it's progression of technology
because of a niche market of their own niche market? Or to
spend their resources to ensure that your 14 year old
MacPlus running 7.x communicates sucessfully with the
newest, biggest, baddest, best box on the block? hmmmm...
Nobody said to you "Hey, switch to OS X 10.2 now!" If you
want raw speed, very little can beat a first generation G4
running OS 8.6 with apps lifted straight from OS 5.1
(seriously, it is the penultimate speed combination on the
mac, as far as I've been able to determine, for virtually
everything outside of graphics/video/sound editing -- but I
don't use the combo because technology marches on).
So, where were we? Oh, yes, backwards compatibility and
data exchange. Your older macs still support filesharing
under AppleTalk, and the new macs still support acting as
the fileserver under AppleTalk, thus you have your solution
for data exchange between the local scripts on your older
mac-in-the-closet and your new mac. The only catch is that
you can't sucessfully compile the AS code for the old
machines on the new machines because the coding standards
are different; doesn't mean you can't write it and port it
over, nor that the two different flavors can't exchange
data.
Best Wishes,
Sorry about the rant, dying of cancer today... blame the
Russians.
=-= Marc
Rob Wrote:
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One of the program's great benefits is that it can run on
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almost any old low-end Mac, which you can stick in a closet
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and talk to via Apple Events.
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This is a long prelude to the complaint that scripted
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events don't work between OS X machines and older ones.
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This functionality has been totally broken since OS X came
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out and is apparently not even fixed in Jaguar.
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Paranoid that I am, I'm thinking that Apple has no
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intention of ever making this work because they want us all
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to scrap our old hardware and buy new OS X machines.
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