Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0208230313050.22633-100000@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: OS X
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 03:16:50 -0400 (EDT)
Hi - loaded this evening OSX on my G3 - it went in without a hitch. I find it quite useful for text manipulation vis-a-vis the terminal window; the system has Perl 5.6 in it, among other things, and full sed/awk/grep etc. No lynx, no bsd-games, though. Blender in a .sit format went in fine and works. OS X is 10.1.2. Premier, Adobe AfterEffects, Netscape, Quicktime Professional, etc. all work fine in Classic mode, even though I'm still in 9.1 and didn't bother to upgrade to 9.2.1. The machine still doesn't handle large-scale .mov files well, especially in reverse - the HP at 1.2 Ghz does. But I'm quite pleased to find the terminal window etc. all fully functional - the bsd is excellent. No startx, Xwindows etc. as far as I can tell though - Alan Work at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Older at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2002 available: write sondheim@panix.com