| Re: Stars on MacOS Catalina? |
Mon, 07 September 2020 05:32  |
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 XAPBob |
 | Lt. Commander |
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And virtualisation is the way to go for software like that.
Because it's the only way to guarantee long term support for abandonware, and with any cpu in the last decade or so there is very little penalty, and of course much lower demands anyway...
And if it isn't abandonware then recompiling for 64 bit... shouldn't be hard.
Apple were the first to drop PS/2 ports, serial ports, PATA drives, optical drives, parallel ports.... The list goes on.
It's one of the things they do - if they see a good connection that can replace stuff they do so, but then they support that connection for a long while.
There is currently an outcry because they aren't moving to USB-C for their phones... It wouldn't be hard to argue that whilst the USB-C connection is undeniably faster and delivers more power.... an iPhone isn't going to be exporting PCIe lanes anyway, and power delivery is already good enough.
At some point they will move, but they committed to supporting lightning for a decade, in the time Apple have used the 30 pin and the lightning connector there have been 3 changes to the USB connector on phones, and of course the change from whatever barrel or proprietary system various manufacturers were using before hand. And both the 30 pin and the lightning connector were way ahead of their time (for once something Apple got right before the crowd rather than after).
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