Women in Technology

Article:		Talking About Life With Mac OS X
Subject:		Drivers and such
Date:		2001-04-30 05:46:37
From:		bradrice
I love OSX, too. I hope the drivers do become available soon. I have two SCSI cards in my B/W G3 and neither has driver support. I have an Epson 900N and doesn't have a driver, along with a Canon 1200FB scanner that doesn't work in OSX. But the writers are right, this is an awesaome piece of engineering Apple has come up with. They have even gone out of their way to make development tools available for the system. I'm looking forward to third party support of Applications and drivers (the scanner won't work in Classic due to the SCSI card). A speed increase is needed, as well, since Aqua does seem to use a lot of CPU power.

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• Drivers and such
  2001-04-30 07:41:28  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  Your points are well taken indeed. Darn those missing drivers! I remember when the Blue and White G3s first came out, and I installed four of them in a high volume graphics dept ... we couldn't get any of our SCSI devices to work even with the third party cards. Talk about panic! No scanning, external drives, etc.
  
  Many of those lessons have helped me with my migration to Mac OS X, and I'm working on an article right now to discuss strategies for smooth migration.
  
  You can have Mac OS X and your devices too ...