Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[David Crowe <David.Crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul, Bill;

Maybe, just maybe, IBM will get their act together and Apple will 
decide to play the two manufacturers off against each other. Then 
people who rely on classic applications would have a choice.

Apart from FrameMaker, I also have the complete Oxford English 
Dictionary on CD. I paid a lot of money for that, and I'm not giving 
it up for anything. It's ten year's old, but that's nothing for 
something like that. And last time I checked their software was now 
only available on PC (I just checked again, and it's still that way).

- David Crowe


At 11:16 AM +0100 7/23/05, Paul Findon wrote:
> 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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