Re: [MacPerl] CFM68K support

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 12:21 PM -0700 7/2/99, Matthias Neeracher wrote:
>If you see a need for ongoing support of CFM68K (obviously it's not going to
>disappear retroactively, speak out now or forever hold your peace.

I still use an SE-30 at times, partly for sentimental reasons (had it since
'87, built my first web sites on it...) but also 'cause it's perfect for
word processing, 'old-style' Internet stuff like email, and _programming_.
Plus, sometimes I use it as an auxiliary machine to my PPC; it can sit over
in the corner single-mindedly munching on large -- and critical -- data
sets, while I do multiple operations in a somewhat less stable environment
on the main machine.

And when the SE-30 gets ready to go at those data sets, what do you think
is the first and most likely Swiss chainsaw it pulls out of its pouch?

I need CFM68K to run MacPerl the SE-30, yes?

In acknowledgement of your brilliant and generous gift of Perl to the Mac
world, I have to say that the current release does quite well. And I know
that some of the goodies I anticipate, as improvements to Perl migrate to
MacPerl, won't be feasible because of OS limitations on the 030 processor
anyway (7.5.1 is about as far as it can go). So I understand if the work of
ongoing supporting CFM68K seems less important as time passes. And I'll use
MacPerl to the fullest on my main machines.

Thanks for asking, though.

1;

- Bruce

~Bruce Van Allen~
~bva@cruzio.com~

# "Leave a useful error message when you die."       r. j. kimball, 1999

# "OK, why not?"                    t. leary, last words, 1998 [I think]

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