On Friday, August 17, 2001, at 04:44 PM, Jon Glass wrote:
> on 8/17/01 9:11 PM, Laurent Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com
> wrote:
>
>> I don't understand this affirmation. Please, explain how Windows would
>> better support Newtons than Classic on OS X?
>
> Er, I didn't say Classic on OS X, but than OS X. How long can you
> continue
> using Classic applications as all the rest of the programs you use
> migrate
> to X? At some point, people will find it too much trouble to launch
> Classic,
> just to "sync" their Newton, and then, you have the problem with people
> moving forward with other contact programs. I, for instance, have moved
> on
> to Now Contact 4. I no longer have the ability to sync with my names.
> bummer. This makes my Newton less useful than it used to be. The day I
> migrate to X is the day I will seriously have to consider if it's worth
> hacking and fudging to keep my Newton going. It seems that Windows
> users, at
> the moment, at least, have retained most of the functionality, and have
> such
> programs as Outlink and stuff to keep their Newtons going, as well as
> the
> fact that NCU Win seems to be running fine under the newer Windows
> environs.
> This is a plus over X no matter how you look at it (keeping "Classic"
> out of
> the picture). I hope I've explained myself clearly enough, and I
> _sincerely_
> hope that my analysis is wrong enough to be challenged and corrected,
> either
> by proof that Windows is in the same boat, or that there is stuff coming
> under X. :-)
Well, the same holds true for the Windoze environment. How long do you
think NCU will work under the next Windoze revisions? For instance, did
anybody on this list was able to successfully run NCU under XP?
I'm guessing that by the time people get tired of loading the Classic
environment under OS X, somebody will have come up with an NCU
alternative, or Apple will be back in business with a brand new PDA!
-Laurent.
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