The end of OS9 development

[Jeffrey Reynolds]

Mark,

yep its a problem for the education market. Since many schools just  
cant afford to upgrade all their machines at once it means they have  
a smaller selection of older (and sometimes outdated) content to use.  
the OSX only programs then dont get bought sometimes unless they have  
enough machines to warrant it and then its not running on all the  
lab's computers, just the newer machines with OSX. This makes for a  
very strange dynamics in the education market, very different from  
other markets where as dan pointed out, once a feature/package  
justifies the upgrade they just buy it. not so in the education  
market in many places. Another up-and-coming market in education is  
the home schooling market, and there you tend to find very wide range  
of computer OSs, and in many cases very limited budgets and technical  
knowledge for upgrading systems.

I realize this is not Rev's fault at all. The solution is not to  
force the software market to be beholding to fix all this, but to be  
aware of it and help out as much as possible where possible (since  
education seems to be a second class citizen in many respects). The  
real solution is to properly fund schools, but thats a huge and  
tangled mess of a problem. I was just pointing out the situation in  
K-12 schools is very different from much of the rest of the markets.  
I am just hoping that rev 261 keeps running well for the upgrades in  
OSX and Windoz for the next few years while i still need to create  
OS9 computers.

Sorry education tends to get the dirt kicked on it a lot and i just  
have to speak up when folks say the solution is for schools to just  
upgrade.

Jeffrey Reynolds



On May 8, 2006, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> ...and therein lies the rub. Not only are there *very* few developers
> still cranking out OS9 apps, but there are no development tools
> currently shipping to produce them. If you haven't already got an old
> version of CodeWarrior or a rev 2.6.1 OS9 engine or something similar
> you're just not going to be making OS9 apps. And there's very little
> incentive to do so, given the increasingly smaller market.
>
> ...and I don't expect any OS9 rev engines any more, since they were
> built with CodeWarrior.