[G4] General OS Craziness w/Two machines

[Brian Silverio]

The G5's and almost all the new machines will not BOOT classic.  

I didn't make clear what I was talking about.  
Sorry about that.

Brian
(who is just about ready to remove classic from his iBook)


Quoting Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net>:

> Brian Silverio <bsilverio at necc.mass.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > It takes time and money to qualify OS releases on all the hardware
> platforms.
> > This had to be one of the reasons why Apple stopped moving classic
> forward.
> > This allowed them to stop developing and testing OS9 drivers
> 
> Whoa!  Are you saying that some new Macs, the G5s maybe, do not run
> Classic?
> Won't any machine running Panther run Classic?  What about the next
> versions
> of OS X?
> 
> I am just not getting ready to put Panther on my QuickSilver G4 and will be
> using Classic mode for at least a few years.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Al Poulin
> Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
> proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
> 
> 
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