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Rebol/View on classic Mac OS

 [1/4] from: weyns::online::no at: 30-Sep-2003 15:16


Rebol/View under Win XP works well. I had no problems installing it, getting connected and playing with all the demos and examples. Today I spend about half a day with the Mac version: view-pro021.sit.hqx. It turned out to be a battle and I have to conclude that it works very badly, most of the time, not at all. I realize that the classic mac os is dead so I suppose I should simply wait for the OS X version. In the mean time, does any one else here has experience with that version of Rebol/View? Regards, Conrad Weyns

 [2/4] 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...

 [3/4] from: weyns:online:no at: 1-Oct-2003 12:37


>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..
Ok, this is familiar.
>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.
Not my experience. I'll give it one more try after increasing the Rebol memory partition but if that doesn't help I'll stop persuing this issue. Essentialy there can no longer be any incentive for any one to develop for classic mac os so it is a waste of time. []
>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
[] If I had a choice I might become a full time QNX user... :-) Regards, Conrad Weyns

 [4/4] from: ed:brittlestar at: 1-Oct-2003 23:25


----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Weyns"
> Essentialy there can no longer be any incentive for any one to develop for
classic mac os so it is a waste of time. Dangerous logic. // Ed