Do you use MacOS X? Options

[Francois Déchery]

With the new Jaguar (OS 10.2) , and the coming major music apps, how do you feel about it?

[dixiechicken]

Part of the problem with the appearent lack of seamless integration between apps and operating systems, the hassles we all have had with proprietary software fileformats, drivers extensions etc.

The very things Leon Rivers describes, can be traced back to the fundamental "theoretical model" for todays computers. This model was formulated in the 1930:s by Turing and von Neuman. In 70 years there has NOT been a single major theoretical breaktrough.

The result is that operating systems and other software in various degrees reflect this model and become very dependant upon the underlaying hardware.
(a.k.a I cant take my favourite daw for Mac and run it on a PC - if I should want )

There was a time say 10 - 15 years ago when it when it was a real hassle to even exchange wordfiles between PC:s and Mac:s. Programmers have been struggling for decades, trying to introduce various abstraction layers between software and the underlaying hardware, to get away from all this.

I could say a lot more on this subject but I think I'll let it be for the moment.
I do not mean to imply that there isnt lots af other factors who is contributing to the present day mess.
I do apologize, beforehand if I have slighted some computer scientists somewhere who is grappling with the present theretical model and trying to create a new computer paradigm.

As a sysadmin ( 10 years now ) for our deparment at UmeΠUniversity, I would welcome a paradigm shift.

Cheers: Max!