asterisk users - Jan 2005 - VoIP software for MAC OS older than "X"?

Hello,

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.

Appreciate any leads and comments...

Thanks: H.D.

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There are a few products for OS9 but most of the development I've
seen is for Mac OSX. Depending upon what features your idea of
a VoIP soft client must implement you could try sipc from
Columbia University (actually a spinoff), Session from wave3software
and possibly Xten but I forget how far back Xten Mac development
goes.


Daiku wrote:
>Hello,
>
>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.
>
>Appreciate any leads and comments...
>
>Thanks: H.D.
>
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>
>
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> 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

Hello Steve,

thanks for the info...!

I checked out those vendors' sites but did not find anything for a Mac OS
before OS X at this time - but i have noticed with other software vendors
that many of them tend to remove slightly older versions from their sites,
so no surprise here... ;-)

Regards: H.D.

Quoting from message: 05/01/24 20:31 +0900 sent by Steve
Blair:
> [...] sipc from Columbia University (actually a spinoff), Session
> from wave3software and possibly Xten [...]

Hi Roy, thanks for the comments...

Quoting from message: 05/01/24 20:50 +0900 sent by Roy Sigurd
Karlsbakk:
>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.
Very much agreed on the last point: i'll most certainly end up using
something else in the end, and that will either be an IP phone or, if it
turns out to be working well enough, the IAXy plus a regular phone. A
hardware based solution will be much better in my case, since it means
portability (i travel a lot) and i won't need a computer or headset to make
phone calls.

Thanks & regards: H.D.

PS: In the meantime i am just "playing" (i.e., learning something),
and old
software is part of that. By the way, the e-mail software i am using right
now (Eudora 1.4.3) seems to have been released 12 years ago (would that be
the "bronze age", in computer terms?)... ;-)

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