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Re: Adobe FrameMaker End-of-Life for Macintosh Platform

Chuck Hastings wrote:

Hello Free Framers,

I once learned FrameMaker on a Mac, in a UC Santa Cruz
Extension four-day intensive course.  Since then I've just
used it on PCs under several generations of Windows.
I didn't encounter much look-and-feel difference between
Mac FrameMaker and Windows FrameMaker— only,
where some icons were located on the desktop.

So I may not have any official standing to feel sad about
Adobe abandoning Mac FrameMaker, but for me Adobe's
business decision has the look and feel of

"99 bottles of beer on the wall . . . "


Actually  # 98, since Adobe yanked Linux FrameMaker a couple
of years ago with the disingenuous explanation that there were just
too many different incompatible versions of Linux out there.

What will be beer bottle # 97?

97 you must be kidding.

I first used FrameMaker on Unix on a MIPS box - hands up those who remember MIPS. I forget if that was 2.1 or 3.0.

I then was given a HP-UX box - the frame media came as a tar archive on a quater inch tape cartridge.

To transfer platform all we had to do was pay for media costs and a samll fee to arrange to have the licence server transferred.

At the time Frame ran on most commerial Unices - cetainly AIX, IRIX, HP-UX as well as Solaris. At the time Frame did not however run on Windows - as this was before Win32s extension for Win 3.11.

Marcus

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