Re: Reverting to Outlook Express

[Dan Crevier]

On 1/22/01 10:58 AM, "Christof Stadler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Think of the MacOS Classic to MacOS X transition as the Win 3.1 to Win 95
>> transition.  (Although, in truth, it is a transition of far greater scale).
> 
> I prefer to compare it with my transition from Win 3.1 to WinNT at work.
> WinNT is a completely new operating system that just happens to be able to
> run most of the old Win16-applications in an emulation process (->Classic in
> OSX). It also supports the old APIs from Win16 (->Carbon), but to be able to
> take advantage of the new features, you loose any backward compatibility.
> 
> The main difference is IMHO that Microsoft also released an OS called Win95
> that stood somehow in between these two extremes. Apple decided to omit this
> step.

Mac OS 9.1.

Dan


-- 
To unsubscribe:               <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To search the archives: 
          <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>