General OS Craziness w/Two machines

[Snow White]

As I understand it a G5 will run classic but not OS9 (9 is not a 
bootable OS).  And Apple no longer includes a copy of OS9 with the new 
OS purchase - so keep those OS9 disks in good shape if you need em.

jj

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 06:20 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
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.