[REBOL] Re: Rebol/View on classic Mac OS
From: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 30-Sep-2003 16:13
I tested last View under MacOS 9.1 about a year ago or so and there was some
problems with TCP connections...for example when you run desktop and try to
connect to interenet(using http) soemtimes the connection hangs..also when
any rebol app read remote data from the net there were problems....After
some searching I have found out that some versions of MacOS has pretty
buggy(or incopatible??) tcp stack. One of my MacOS friend told me that this
is normal that even in higher versions of classic MacOS number of bugs is
icreasing and the probably best version was 8.1. I don't know if this is
true about other versions than Czech but I was pretty frustrated from it...
Another think I had to resolved was that MacOS classic(even the latest
versions 9.x)doesn't have dynamic memory alocation.What a shame! I had to
laugh outloud and wonder how such OS without multitasking and dynamic memory
allocation could survive longer than great AmigaOS. Well sometimes(or
usually?) the reality is nonconform. So if you wonder why some Rebol scripts
give you error message "not enough memory" then you probably need to change
memry alocation settings in the Rebol icon..
regards,
Cyphre
PS: Don't take this as a beginning of flame thread. It's just my experience
with the Clasic Macintosh platform. I always thought that Mac computers are
great. But when I had to use them in my job I realized that if you want to
use them as a "more universal" OS and not only run Photoshop or Quark for
the whole day I had to change my mind. Sometimes good marketing brings you
corupted mirror of reality. I tried to "think different" but...
PPS: Hope MacOSX(Jaguar or what is the latest version??) is better than the
versions before...
