Re: El Capitan worth upgrading?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: El Capitan worth upgrading?
Date	2015-10-18 18:53 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-10-18, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <5623e4d5$0$32040$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com> 
>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-18 08:22, Alan Browne wrote:
>
>>> I'd assume that on older h/w Metal is not called at all.
>
>> Which means the application needs to have two code branches
>
> No, it doesn't mean that at all.

Of course, the best way to implement such a mechanism would be to do it
in the Cocoa APIs used by applicationsi in a way that is transparent to
developers...

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El Capitan worth upgrading? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-10-15 17:42 +0000
  Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-15 23:24 +0000
  Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-16 12:39 +1300
    Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-10-16 08:52 -0700
      Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 12:22 -0400
        Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-16 10:58 -0700
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-10-16 22:21 -0700
            Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-17 18:26 +1300
              Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-16 23:20 -0700
            Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-16 23:20 -0700
            Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 08:49 -0400
              Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-17 10:51 -0700
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 18:12 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-17 21:42 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-18 03:20 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-18 08:22 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-18 14:28 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-18 18:41 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-18 18:53 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-18 17:07 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-18 22:22 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-18 19:41 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-19 10:50 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-19 16:28 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-19 12:47 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-20 03:16 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-20 14:59 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-20 17:07 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-20 17:11 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-20 21:01 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-21 08:28 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-18 21:58 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-18 18:40 +0000
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-17 20:54 -0700
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-18 08:27 -0400
                Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-18 10:43 -0700
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 12:27 -0700
        Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-16 15:25 -0400
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 15:28 -0400
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-16 22:53 +0000
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-10-16 22:23 -0700
            Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-17 18:54 +1300
        Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-10-16 22:20 -0700
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-17 01:29 -0400
            Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 08:56 -0400
      Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-16 16:28 -0400
        Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-17 16:45 +1300
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-17 03:55 +0000
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 08:48 -0400
        Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-10-16 22:27 -0700
          Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 08:53 -0400
  Re: El Capitan worth upgrading? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-16 16:25 -0400

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