[jaws-uk] Re: What Jaws will work with today.
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:25:11 -0000
The Mac and PC were to start with two entirely different software and
hardware platforms and even distinct "cultural differences" as well. In
more recent years since the abandonment of the PowerPC processor line
and move to Intel based microprocessors (the chips that go inside the
box that does most of the work) they have become somewhat similar on the
hardware front, in fact mostly the same now really. As a result there
is a bizarre growth movement of Windows PC enthusiasts who attempt to
make Apple's OS X 10.5 go on Windows PCs, no doubt feuled by the
availability of leaked and illegal patched copies of Apple's software
over torrent sites.
However this belies the differences inherent in them all the way down to
a very low level. Windows is based broadly on a low level layer that
looks similar to MS-DOS but in fact isn't and completely proprietory on
which the main Windows interface sits atop. The Mac from OS 10.0 runs
variously on a Unix (Darwin) or Linux shell with Mac OS 10 sitting on
top.
The a developers point of view it is possible to port applications from
one platform (particularly Mac to PC) easier, particularly if the use
Cocoa. However even saying this it would not benefit screen reading and
even in the mainstream world this is not immediately going to become
less complicated due to Apple's movement toward newer technologies
within their operating system.
Suffice to say that these are two different worlds which only merge very
slightly at the edges.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of TIDDYogg
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:53 PM
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: What Jaws will work with today.
Dorothy... you can't put petrol in any car... some are diesel.
I think that's a pretty good corollary.
Dorothy Ingram-Gorban wrote:
> Hallo friends, the question was "what Jaws will work with today, and
> the year is 2008 after all, I was speaking to a friend the other night
> who is a Jaws user, and he was testing out an Applemac, maybe I
> should have asked him why but it suddenly reminded me that I did once
> here Tristram refer to an Applemac. I know Jaws is said like
> Kurzweil to be what is called Mapi compliant, but maybe that was in
> the past that is all no big deal friends will it or not, Jaws goes on
> about JAW standing for Access to work seems a natural question to
> ask if this is just if you work with as George would say star star
> Ms! incidentally since I put the punction to non Tiddy if you are
> reading this the star which is there is not seen by Jaws, now if I
> send to myself and pick up on laptop this is Desktop it will read
> the *** stars. so maybe I shall try some punctuation. Dorothy
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