Re: Meridian compatable with Macintosh system 7?

[unmvax!gnome!jwhatle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John W. Hatley (RE/SPEC))]

>From article <1991Sep19.134825.10076@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>, by robichau@freed
om.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux):
> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes:
> 
>>On the subject of Volume VI calls, I have been informed by Meridian Tech
>>Support that they are not currently devoting resources to Volume VI packages.
 I
>>needed QDOffscreen, so I did it myself in about 2 hours; it compiles, but I
>>haven't tested whether it runs yet. I would be interested in finding out if
>>anyone else is upset about Meridian being so slow about System 7 support, and
>>if anyone else has converted header files themselves.
> 
>>Jeff E Mandel MD MS
>>Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
>>Tulane University School of Medicine
>>New Orleans, LA
> 
> About a month ago, the Meridian sales rep who handles government/contractor 
> sales in Georgia told me in a phone conversation that Meridian *does not* pla
n
> to support the Macintosh compiler any further; i.e., they will NOT devote 
> resources to things like support for new versions of the O/S.
> 
> His claim was that they'd only sold about 300 copies of the Mac version, and 
> that such a small number meant their resources would be more productively
> invested elsewhere.
> 
> -Paul
> -- 
> Paul Robichaux                  | Disclaimer: These are my opinions, not NTI'
s
> robichau@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov  |             or NASA's.
sorry, just a test of our followup function in vn.

John Hatley
jwhatle@cs.sandia.gov