[G4] Dual Booting

Mel Krewall mkrewall at mac.com
Wed Mar 3 19:12:29 PST 2004


True. Low level access to hardware is intentionally isolated in favor 
of overall system stability. The current generation of disk tools for 
OS X don't have all the functionality that some of the earlier ones 
did. That was a tradeoff Apple made when it adopted Unix for the base 
system. It's a tradeoff that I am pleased with, but as always, 
different users have different needs.
Mel

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flagstick on top."
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On Mar 3, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Alex wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004, at 23:26 Canada/Eastern, Mel Krewall wrote:
>
>> [...] I have yet to find an application that will not run just fine 
>> in Classic. [...]
>
> Actually, there are plenty of apps which don't run in Classic -- most 
> of those which rely on direct access to hardware or the filesystem. 
> Some of them don't have OS X native equivalents. For instance, I've 
> not been able to find an OS X-native app capable of sector-by-sector 
> extraction of data or audio from CDs, as the venerable Astarte CD-Copy 
> can.
>
> f
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