On Aug 23, 2005, at 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find irony in the fact that a well written piece of software for Mac
System 2.0 that followed Apple's programming guidelines - how long has
it
been... 20 years? - still works under 9.2.2 and possibly Classic mode
in
OSX, is still robust and useful. Duh, of course it's not Mactopia
software
from Microsoft.
I don't see that as "ironic," but I do think it is one of the coolest
aspects of Mac OS. It will be a sad day when we switch to x86 and can
no longer run System 1 apps.... that will be the first time in the
Macintosh's >20-year-history.
Contrast this longevity to Windows, where Windows XP cannot run
anything for Windows 1.0/2.0.
Now, of course not everything for old Macintosh System versions runs,
perhaps even most things don't run, but the fact that many old things
do run in Classic is VERY impressive, especially considering that the
OS is running as a virtual machine, AND the software is being run on an
emulated CPU - OS 8 & 9 include a m68k emulator to enable those
versions to run old 68000 software. It is a VERY impressive thing,
from a technical standpoint, what Apple has done.
And of course things like Basilisk exist, but to my knowledge there are
only m68k Mac emulators, not PPC Mac emulators. I currently run vMac
to emulate my Mac Plus, and Basilisk to emulate my Quadra. These are
really cool solutions, but they are not "Classic." Once there is a PPC
Mac emulator, the absence of an Apple-provided "Classic" on "Mac OS
X86" will be less of an issue. (Actually it isn't really an issue for
me, but since nobody has written a SimJesse for OS X, I keep Classic
around just for that. Life just won't be the same without SimJesse.)
Actually, as a student of operating systems design, I think Microsoft's
best bet (for their OS woes) would be to do what Apple has done. That
is, write/design a new OS and API from scratch (or buy Sun for
Solaris), and provide a "Classic" interface to run Win32 applications.
Until they do that, Windows users will forever be plagued with the
problems in the current Windows design.
Daniel
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