[Asterisk-Users] VoIP software for MAC OS older than "X"?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk roy at karlsbakk.net
Mon Jan 24 04:50:51 MST 2005


> is there anybody reading this who has experience with VoIP (IAX or 
> not) on
> Macintosh computers? If so, have you ever seen or heard of (even an
> experimental, i.e., never marketed) VoIP application for any of the 
> older
> Mac OSs, such as 9, 8, or 7?
>
> I can't quite believe that VoIP is such a recent idea that it was 
> invented
> only *after* Mac OS X had become firmly established, but so far my 
> searches
> have turned out nothing. However, not all good stuff and good ideas 
> are on
> the web,so a community of knowledgable people often has information 
> that a
> web search cannot produce.

The old MacOS' lack of scheduling and other fundamental functionality 
makes it not worth programming real-time apps on. So don't ask. Kick it 
out, use ATAs or IP phones or a PC. There's no point trying. You'll end 
up doing something else in the end anyway.

roy




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