From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: August 7, 2012 11:45:07 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Macs and Science

Hi Ray;

I have been following that too and I sympathize with the death of "print" on the Mac. Apple has basically managed to kill off video editing on the Mac just as they did pre press in the 1990's. The number of companies that have stopped doing live video editing on the Mac is pretty scary.

I developed a Mac GIS package (MCadContour - still findable after a decade and in use by some die hards)  in the 1990's for the Mac and had rave reviews. I had customers comparing it to multi $100K per license SGI work stations - for $1000 per copy. I had hordes of skanky code to generate high resolution post script embedded pict and print files and it would also do live 3D rotations - on 680xx machines with single CPUs and no GPU. We had customers doing 600 dpi printing on 60" wide plotters for the Oil and Gas groups. That's when developers had to be actually smart and know their CPU and instructions sets to hand optimize performance and keep Ram usage low. Now no one cares except to shove the crap out the door - especially if it forces the user to buy a new Machine because their coding practices suck.

Then Steve came back an "saved" the Mac - killing my business off in the process - event hough we generated well over $5 million in new Mac sales Apple would never have had for during their "near death" time - except for us. I took a three year hiatus from Mac development and went and worked for companies after I shut it all down - but I guess the lesson learned didn't stick.

If Astro IIDC ends, I won't come back to the Mac ever again.

PS: The Astro IIDC web site  has been updated briefly explaining the situation:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/ASCASTROIIDC.html

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

On 7-Aug-12, at 11:11 AM, Ray Byrne wrote:

Don't forget those of us in Graphic Design and Print! Try getting a colour brochure out of a Windoze machine. Our market kept Apple alive before iPhones and iPods they seem to have neglected us a bit now though.

Ray