I wrote:
Not a Mac programmer, but I recall that when Steve Jobs came back, they published a schedule that said threads would be available a couple releases down the road. Schedules only move one way, so I'd guess ActiveState is premature.
which was just my way of saying that "did he perhaps refer to OS X ?". or are they adding real threads to good old MacOS too? </F>
which was just my way of saying that "did he perhaps refer to OS X ?".
or are they adding real threads to good old MacOS too?
Oh, /F, please dont start adding annotations to your collection of incredibly obscure URLs - takes away half the fun ;-) Mark.
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http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990531AAFA
which was just my way of saying that "did he perhaps refer to OS X ?".
or are they adding real threads to good old MacOS too?
Dragon is doing a port of its speech recog software to "good old MacOS" and "OS X", and best we can tell the former is as close to an impossible target as we've ever seen. OS X looks like a pleasant romp, in comparison. I don't think they're going to do anything with "good old MacOS" except let it die. it-was-a-reasonable-architecture-15-years-ago-ly y'rs - tim
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Dragon is doing a port of its speech recog software to "good old MacOS" and "OS X", and best we can tell the former is as close to an impossible target as we've ever seen. OS X looks like a pleasant romp, in comparison. I don't think they're going to do anything with "good old MacOS" except let it die.
it-was-a-reasonable-architecture-15-years-ago-ly y'rs - tim
Don't Macs have another CPU in the keyboard already? Maybe you could just require a special microphone <wink wink nudge nudge>. that's-not-a-mini-tower-that's-a-um--subwoofer-ly y'rs - Gordon
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