>>I'd like to know what evidence either of you could produce to back
up your claim that Classic won't run on Intel Macs. Rosetta, which is
part of OS, allows any app that runs on a G3 to run on an Intel Mac.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying there's nothing out there
that I'm aware of that says you're right.<<
Come on, you're always telling everyone else to do some googling, how
come you didn't? ;) Here's a link to a google on this topic:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=schiller+Mac+intel
+classic&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
>>Then there is this quote from the Universal Binaries Development
home page on Apple's Developer site:
"If your application runs in a version of the Mac OS that is earlier
than Mac OS X version 10.0, you should first read Carbon Porting
Guide and Technical Note TN2003 Moving Your Code to Mac OS X."<<
That sounds pretty clear to me. :)
>>I should think that if Apple is going to put people through a
transition, they'd bend over backwards to make sure as many as
possible are happy -- which gives them strong incentive to keep
Classic in there for many years to come. It doesn't require any
updating, costs them nothing, keeps the intellectual property viable
and keeps a bunch of institutions/corporate/old-timer customers
happy. I'm not quite willing to put money on it, but I feel pretty
sure that Classic will be sticking around.<<
Read the first article indexed in that google search above by C/Net.
Phil Schiller believes that no one uses Classic anymore and that it
is therefore a very low priority at this point. Which is fine by me,
because the Classic Mac OS outlived its technical potential a long
time before OS 9 ever came along. Any OS without protected memory
has no right to live anymore with today's RAM-hungry apps. Just my
opinion.
Peace,
Todd
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