[MacDV] Re: MAC OS X Panther?

Mark O'Brien rmobrien at mac.com
Mon Apr 28 06:34:00 PDT 2003


Newer Macs *do* ship with Classic, which is the ability to run OS  9 
applications within OS X. Apple calls this a "compatibility layer" IIRC.

The only thing they *can't* do is *boot* into OS 9. This could be a 
problem with some OS 9 apps, installers/updaters, and older hardware.

Mark

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 02:16  PM, Matthew Guemple wrote:

> What is all this about newer macs not shipping with classic and 
> various people having to find all these weird workarounds? Maybe I'm 
> just confused by the diff tween Native and classic.



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