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Re: Framemaker/UNIX viable on Macs?

Subject: Re: Framemaker/UNIX viable on Macs?
From: "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:09:08 -0700




Sarah Stegall wrote:


Now that Adobe has abandoned the Mac platform, but is continuing to support UNIX, has anyone tried running FM for UNIX on Mac OS? The Mac OS is UNIX based; I am wondering just how compatible they are.

They're not at all compatible. Software (like Frame) must be compiled
to run on a specific operating system & specific hardware. E.g.,
there's a version of Frame for Solaris that runs on the SPARC platform,
but that version does not run on the Intel platform. Frame for Unix
will run neither on the Mac hardware nor on the Mac OS.

A better approach would be running (assuming they still exist) SoftPC
and Frame for Windows under that.

Eric

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