In article <fqds5k$p74$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Mr. X." <no_spam_please@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does Java work on Macintosh (the Sun's Java),
Yes.
> and what OSs are most populate on Macintosh ?
Mac OS X. Probably today some sub-version of 10.4 holds a ****rnking lead
with 10.5 growing, 10.3 tiny but still present and anything older
negligible.
> (I wonder if there is Microsoft OS on Macintosh,
Not in the sense of an OS developed by Microsoft to run on Macs.
Generally people buy Macs to run Mac OS. Sometimes Linux or BSD
alongside or (much rarer) instead. But if you're going to run a
Microsoft OS, you might as well buy a machine that Microsoft had a hand
in spec'ing or a home-built close match for such a machine. Modern Macs
(the Intel-based ones) can run Windows well and there's a numerically
large but relatively small minority who do so because they have to.
> and does it sup****t Suns' Java on that System, since I know Microsoft
and
> Sun are not friendly-cooperated).
If you run Windows on a Mac, it'll sup****t Java as well as that same
version of Windows on a commodity x86 box. Last time I checked, Java on
Windows wasn't much of a problem despite the cor****ate animosity between
Microsoft and [anyone who publishes any product that competes with any
Microsoft product].
> Also,
> I want to know more on Macintosh.
> How survive among all the PCs,
You do you work. When you need to exchange data you use either commodity
formats (for most things) or Office when you need to.
> and what is it compitabilities and softwares
> that can run also on PCs (Intel) and on Macintosh,
Too large a number to list.
> and if I need to decide what is the preffered language - what should I
> decide to develop on ?
If you want to develop software *for* Macs, the way to go today is the
Objective-C language and the Cocoa libraries. There are freely-available
development tools from Apple to work on. There are other languages that
can also leverage Cocoa, such as Perl, Ruby and AppleScript. You *can*
use just about any language you can name, though. I've just confirmed
that there are sup****ted builds of Icon and J on the Mac, for example.
Hard to get more niche than those, but there they are.
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