> -----Original Message----- > From: Johannes Gebauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Contemporary Hardware you cannot run OS 9 direct anyway.
Actually, this is a false statement. A couple of models still for sale at the Apple store will boot OS9 directly. Furthermore, for a few more days yet, the vaunted G5's are still vapor and cannot be counted as "contemporary". But this misses the point. Of *course* there will be no further OS9 updates. What matters is how many machines are out there running it where the users are still current on software. One of the big excuses for Macs being so much more expensive than equivalent Wintel boxes is that they last longer. My Macs have each been productive for about 5 years, whereas my Wintels have been productive for about 3. If we take 5 years as the limit for "current" machines, we still have productive hardware out there that was made in 1998. OS9 won't be dead until the preponderance of OS9-capable machines is either fully converted to OSX or dead. I see this as probably 2 years from now, since no machines before G4's run OSX very well. (Even my wife's 1st-gen G4 Tibook runs OSX at a crawl.) OS9 is hardly "long dead". It won't even start being dead for at least 1-2 years. It is hardly a market that MM or any other vendor can ignore if they aren't forced to. Even audio-system vendors like MOTU and Digidesign are continuing to sell OS9-compatible versions of their software. Just because maintaining a dual-platform version of audio programs is impractical does not mean those vendors are ignoring OS9 yet. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
