[X4U] "Backwards Compatibility"

[John Baltutis]

On 6/20/08, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Earle Jones wrote:
>> > On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm complaining about the lack of backward compatibility and 10.5
>> >> just plain being unstable....
>> >
>> > I am running Leopard -- Sys X 10.4.3 -- on an Intel iMac and it is
>> > very stable.  In fact, it seems to me that my stability just goes up
>> > with every upgrade.  And I have no problems running the programs I need.
>>
>> SORRY!!  I mean of course, Sys X 10.5.3
>
> I had assumed that was what you meant. :^)
>
> I just upgraded the MacBook that my wife has to 10.5.3 yesterday, and will
> be watching to see if either she or our son have any problems with it.  If
> it proves to be stable for the next month or two, I will start looking into
> getting SheepShaver running for my legacy apps, and see about upgrading my
> G5 to 10.5.  I bought the family pack when it was released, and would like
> to run more than one machine at 10.5! :^)

Good luck trying to run SheepShaver
(<http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/sheepshaver>) on an ICBMf
(Intel-chip-based Mac). AFAICT, it won't and it's last update was May 06.

HTH