How do you handle caring about PPC?

[stephen barncard]

Richmond:

I am not the enemy.

Most of us know about your efficient use of Mac hardware and your struggles
with them.

What prevents you from using existing builds of Livecode that support PPC
like you already are doing?

Apple announced they were dropping the platform in 2006. 9 years ago.  One
can't expect Runrev to support a platform that is THAT old just to support
a base that can't be justified. There's no ROI.  Also, I don't think
there's a modern compiler that can work for both PPC and new 64 bit
architectures.

And for institutions with PPC hardware, there's a point where they can't be
repaired and any remaining used machines have already been sent to the glue
factory.

And there's the spare parts issue. Cooling was always a problem with the
CPU stacks in towers because they ran so hot. I went through a couple.
Memory is now very expensive to replace for old machines.

I would not want to be the person to have to maintain a lab of PPC machines
in a math lab..   It's a much easier/cheaper sell to get new cheap PCs or
tablets, especially in the always-cashed-starved education markets in the
US. And easier to get grants for such items.

not wanting to start a flame war, just sayin'.

sqb


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/08/2013 12:10 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just wanted to hear, how you care today about PPC / Intel Macs when
>> creating your standalones. Do you still today compile for PPC and Intel or
>> has the time passed to support that platform?
>>
>> Btw. When was the last PPC build? And with what systemversion?
>>
>> Thanks for your experiences
>>
>> Tiemo
>>
>>
>>
> I always offer a PPC build of my latest build of my Devawriter Pro [
> http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/**richmond/dwriterpro.html<http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html>] as I know that at least 3 people who use my software use PPC Macs on
> a day-to-day basis.
>
> Apart from my 'faux' Mac 10.6 (VMware Player) I only have PPC Macs which
> continue serve me very well indeed:
>
> 1 tray loading G3 iMac (stays with my Mum and Dad in England: I use it for
> internet access and Livecode programming when I'm there - works with LC/RR
> 4.0 on Mac OS 10.3.9)
>
> 4 slot loading G3 iMacs working on Mac OS 10.4.11
>
> 1 MacMini (last PPC model) working on Mac OS 10.4.11
>
> I run off Mac PPC standalones of my EFL software as well as Linux ones: I
> don't run off Mac Intel
> ones as I don't have any of those Macs.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
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