At 09:12 AM +0100 06/11/2005, Miche Doherty wrote:
[My third attempt to send this. Mail is playing silly buggers with
the text encoding]
FWIW, in Eudora, you can select text then click a single button to
strip out all formatting bogosities. Perhaps your mail client has
the same somewhere?
On 11 Jun 2005, at 5:51 am, Charles Martin wrote:
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.
No, Charles. Rosetta does not allow "any app" to run. Per Apple's
doc, there is a whole list of things it won't run, including apps
built for OS 8 and 9.
I think John Gruber of Daring Fireball was the first to spot that
Classic is on Death Row:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/06/classic_not_supported
I've seen it in a few places that predate this, but *shrug*.
I got ahold of the guy at Apple that a client delt with re driver bug
issues earlier this year. He confirms - there is no Classic in the
x86 build of OS X. Apple feels that Classic is dead. Period. He
pointed out that Classic, by its very nature does a lot of kernelish
things, to permit OS 9 to access low level internals. Those things
are also themselves listed as not supported by Rosetta.
Now, what will the future hold? Customer complaints brought back OS
9 bootable Macs for a while. Who knows, maybe a grass-roots effort
can bring back Classic. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.
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
If Apple had any interest in its customers then they would never have
killed off OS 9 so fast. And they'd get off their buttts and write
better drivers and such.
- Dan.
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