RunRev Pricing

Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 23 16:45:55 EST 2004


Otay.  Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

M
On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/23/04 2:11 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
>
>> Why?
>> Win 95, 98, XP are all one license, right?    So why would OS 9 and 
>> OS X be separate?
>
> Probably because the Mac builds are two separate engines, which 
> require different compiles and separate amounts of time and resources 
> to put together. They really are different products and they need to 
> be downloaded separately. Combined in the OS 9 engine are versions 
> that work with both 68K and PPC versions of Mac OS; so for classic Mac 
> you actually get dual duty.
>
> The Windows product is a single unified engine, requiring only one 
> build cycle, that works with all Win32 products. If it were possible 
> to combine Classic Mac OS and OS X into a single engine, then the Mac 
> engine would more closely approximate the Windows engine -- but this 
> can't be done.
>
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