[X4U] 10.5 instead of 10.6

[Robert Ameeti]

At 4:41 PM -0800, 2/10/10, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Robert Ameeti wrote:
>
>>At 2:54 PM -0800, 2/10/10, zapcat wrote:
>>
>>>No need to get worked up, John. I am not 
>>>saying that SL is a steaming pile, simply that 
>>>it is for some, not production-ready.
>>
>>Using your logic, no OS will ever be production 
>>ready. I will guarantee you that no future OS 
>>will ever have AppleTalk, thus, no future Apple 
>>OS will ever be 'production-ready'. And every 
>>release of every OS that has ever existed has 
>>caused older apps to no longer work when the 
>>developers of those apps have chosen to not 
>>update their apps. Thus again, every OS that is 
>>ever to be released in the future will not be 
>>'production ready' by your definition.
>
>How is the Kool Aid?  You've obviously had a good sized drink of it.

Yep. Been drinking it for years. Works for me.

>I'm just glad that when I removed my dependance on classic Appletalk
>fileshares I also removed my dependence on Appletalk for printing.  I was
>using both on OpenVMS, and when it quit supporting Appletalk fileshares, it
>also lost the ability to print to Appletalk printers.  So while I might need
>to reconfigure printing on the Mac side, I already have the hardware in
>place.

AppleTalk was first put into an Apple OS in 1984. 
When Apple released in 1997 Mac OS 8.6 with NSL, 
Apple at that time showed its cards to be moving 
away from AppleTalk and its lack of use of TCP/IP 
based network resources. Apple continued to offer 
connectivity with AppleTalk devices up through 
their release of Snow Leopard in 2009. That would 
be a 15 year continued support of a technology 
that was obviously long in the tooth. To have 
continued to support AppleTalk for the last 12 
years was to have served the older technology 
devices. To continued would only suck up 
resources for limited value.

>  The OP is not so lucky, he has a device purchased 6 months ago,
>brand new, that he's trying to use, and 10.6 removed support for it.

If the OP purchased something 6 months ago that 
relied on AppleTalk, then the OP deserves what he 
gets. Apple has long, long ago stated that 
AppleTalk was no longer going to be available for 
the newer OSes.

>Or do you simply use only the bundled apps?

I have over 400 apps on my computer and they all work just fine thank you.


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