The midi audio framework is proprietary on Mac and Microsoft platforms so it's the other way around.

Secondly the original version was not written in C, C didn't exist, and it's obviously a lot of code. My smallest piece of software was in business basic and was 50,000 lines for the main app with 20 thousand for each of the modules. I tried to rewrite it to run properly on a PC but ended up keeping it on Unix. I had a large enough customer base, and it ended up a good decision, for every tom dick and harry and their kid were walking into my clients offices and trying to help them with 'clunky' terminals. Some of them thought it was a Dos system with bad screens. In reality to look up parts and print invoices you don't need a fancy interface. My best story is when I wanted 12k for an upgrade to a bigger CPU and tape backup they brought in a 17 year old. They started entering the 1/2 million part inventory, and every 20 items the system rebuilt the index for about an hour, and finally when they had spent 8k on the kid and his dream system that worked great with 40 parts got bogged down so badly I got a call. Needless to say I wasn't fast to get there. The whole Dos on the table computer debacle lead a lot of people down the garden path.

At the end of the day, if Mac had no compilers for the O/s you had to rewrite the whole thing you might just as well look at your business model and throw up your hands. I still have lots of code out there but none of it would run on a Mac.

When the program started on the Atari, C was not on the horizon.

John Conley
Musica est vita