FW: HomeMac Digest #589

[Ralph Tym]

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> From: Ralph Tym <ralphtym at ameritech.net>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:45:39 -0600
> To: Home Macintosh Users List <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: HomeMac Digest #589
> 
> I understand your pickiness.  Whether the hardware was changed to ONLY
> accommodate OS X or not, the result is the same.  You can't boot in OS 9.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>> From: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:07:14 -0800
>> To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: HomeMac Digest #589
>> 
>> 
>> From: "Duane Murphy" <duanemurphy at mac.com>
>> Subject: [HM] Re: New Mac's able to boot in OS 9?
>> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:36:13 -0800
>> Message-Id: <20030318163613.2556 at mail.murphyslogic.com>
>> 
>> --- At Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:44:13 -0600, Ralph Tym wrote:
>> 
>>> Here's the quandary I'm in.  I want/need to purchase a new Mac, be it iMac,
>>> eMac or tower, but it MUST be able to boot up in OS 9, first and foremost,
>>> and OS X as well.  Are any of the new Mac's capable of doing this anymore?
>>> I'm given to believe that all of them cannot do so simply because the
>>> Hardware is designed for OS X only and will no longer function in OS 9,
>>> regardless of the software.  True or not?
>> 
>> As other's have pointed out, there are lists on the web that show which
>> models will and will not boot OS 9.
>> 
>> I wanted to make something clear about the statement:
>> 
>>> I'm given to believe that all of them cannot do so simply because the
>>> Hardware is designed for OS X only and will no longer function in OS 9,
>>> regardless of the software.
>> 
>> The hardware is _not_ designed for OS X. The hardware has been updated to
>> newer technology. In order for OS 9 to work drivers and additional effort
>> would have to be made to make OS 9 work with the new hardware. OS 9 is
>> dead. Apple will not be writing any more software for it. So the hardware
>> isnt designed for OS X, it's just new hardware and there is no support
>> for this hardware in OS 9.
>> 
>> Just being picky.
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> ...Duane