[G4] What is possible to do with a G4 800Mhz osx10.3.9. and yet keep Logic pro 6.4.1 and Pro Tools 6.2.2./digi001?

[Keith Whaley]

stefan möller wrote:
> hello!
> 
> thanks for all the answers and yes of course it´s a Power Pc Quicksilver 
> 800mhz ( letter  c  fell off sorry..).
> 
> Looks I´ve started something here..thoughtful comments..and this is a 
> good one:
> I'm waiting for GE to insist on changing the gauge of US railroads. Four 
> feet seven and three quarters inches was pretty silly and it's too 
> small. Make it two meters and change all of the rails.  Think how much 
> GE could earn making replacement engines for its P6es that now dominate.
> 
> Describes very well what actually happens from time to time.
> 
> I will probably be back on more specific questions ..
> 
> /stefan
> 
> 
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
> 
>> At 10:48 -0400 9/16/09, Don wrote, and I SNIPPED:
>>> its just my rant on those who 'MUST' have
>>> bran new machines for no good excuse while labelling it
>>> as a 'need', a small bit of politics, and business in
>>> general.
>>
>> The rest badly needed to be said.
>>
>> I'm preparing this on an 8500 running OS 9. My G4 runs OS 10.3.9 
>> because any newer system will not let me continue to share files with 
>> my SE/30 server.
>>
>> I drive a 1982 Jeep which fits the highway just fine except perhaps 
>> that it's hard to stay seated above 55 MPH. I fly a 1957 Piper Apache 
>> which still can stay on course and the radios still communicate with 
>> air traffic control.
>>
>> I use oscilloscopes and voltmeters that have RS232 serial ports. They 
>> work fine with one of my SE/30s but don't even think about a modern 
>> Apple box. You have to spend more than the meters are worth for 
>> adapters to USB or ethernet.
>>
>> But my 5 year old software will no longer work on the internet. Modern 
>> JavaScript and Web-2 are introducing things so fast that even two year 
>> old software won't work. I believe that to be deliberate as a means to 
>> sell new stuff. Even my government has changed - upgraded? - its tax 
>> forms so that my version of Adobe Acrobat will no longer fill out the 
>> PDF forms. Next spring I shall have to copy my spreadsheet using a pen 
>> on the paper forms.
>>
>> Yes to Ubuntu. To me its a pleasant return to the 70's when the ASR33 
>> and a thermal printer was the interface over RS232 to the shared main 
>> frame. If I don't like something in Linux I can and do just change it. 
>> The browser works OK with my bank. Linux is quite happy to communicate 
>> with my SE/30's both ways while OS neXt is read only with finder's 
>> "Connect to Server". And the hardware is a whole lot cheaper.
>>
>> And yes. I regularly come downstairs in the morning to find my G4 
>> still running with a message that says "I failed to shut down because 
>> bbedit refused to quit." On OS 9 I can arrange for MPW to save and 
>> quit when asked by the system. Not in OS neXt: the kiss of death 
>> interrupt isn't supported.
>>
>> And one more:  The lady uses OS 10.6 now on her iMac and whonoze what 
>> on her iPhone. She buys an app using iTunes and forwards the emailed 
>> receipt to me. It's 300 kilobytes of Apple advertising wrapped in an 
>> HTML mail envelope that pays zero attention to RFC-2822. I simply 
>> can't read it on OS 9.
>>
>> I'm waiting for GE to insist on changing the gauge of US railroads. 
>> Four feet seven and three quarters inches was pretty silly and it's 
>> too small. 


1.) Too small for WHAT?

2.) Since when has rail gauge made any sense at all? In the U.S. it has 
apparently measured between 3 feet and 6 feet, depending...

> Make it two meters and change all of the rails.  

Whatever is finally agreed upon for what a 'standard gauge' really IS 
today, you can probably blame a lot of it on Englishman George 
Stephenson (1781-1848).

In the U.S. it's currently 4 foot, 8 1/2", by congressional decree, so 
Google says.

In any case, to make it 2 meters is not only arbitrary and without any 
drivers, but retrofitting the U.S. rail system would be night unto 
impossible.

keith whaley
Who owns a G4 AND an iMac, just to keep this pertinent, if not exactly 
'on track'... :-D


Think how
>> much GE could earn making replacement engines for its P6es that now 
>> dominate.