Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Paul Findon <pfindon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jul 2005, at 16:39, Bill Briggs wrote:

>  There we go. So the funeral date for FrameMaker on Mac is dangling 
> out there.

I thought the funeral took place last year when Adobe stopped selling 
it. It's curious why Adobe still sells PageMaker for Mac OS 9.1 or Mac 
OS X (Classic mode only). I wonder why they were in such a hurry to 
bury FM.

Apple would have to rewrite Mac OS 9 for Intel in order to support 
Classic, and that's highly unlikely. Still, PowerPC Macs should be 
available until the end of 2007. Personally, I'd rather buy one of them 
than an unproven Intel Mac. Incidentally, IBM just announced the 970MP 
dual-core G5 and 970FX low-power G5, so perhaps we'll get that G5 
PowerBook after all. Perhaps a 3 GHz Power Mac, too.

> Time to start collecting the last generation of Macs that boot OS 9 
> natively.

I wouldn't worry. There are tons of used Macs out there that can run 
FrameMaker. I recently bought a used DT233 Power Mac on eBay to swap 
out a water-damaged logic board in another Mac (w/ 500 MHz/G3 card). 
One of the many great things about Mac FrameMaker is that it flies even 
on medium-power Macs.

Paul


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