On 27-07-2003 19:25, "Don Wakefield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This may be off topic a bit but I have just
> encountered my first application which not only has
> its OSX version but has two versions of OS9. I guess I
> always though that Classic and Carbon were the same
> thing but this product clearly thinks differently. Is
> there a simple answer as to the difference between
> applications which are "OS9 Classic" and "OS9 Carbon?"
> Especially with regard to those of us who are living
> in the "nine" and precluded from "ten" world?
>From an OS X user point of view the difference is that Carbon applications
can be run both in OS 9 and OS X natively (ie. in OS X there is no time
wasted to start Classic and that sweet candy-like beauty of OS X liquid
windows is not spoiled by the "Platinum" OS 9 look ;-))
>From an OS 9 user point of view, (AFAIK) there are two differences: first -
carbon ones require "CarbonLib" extension, second - Carbon applications tend
to be a little bit slower than Classic ones, which is especially visible on
pre-G3 processors.
So, if you use only OS 9 on a pre-G3 Mac (without a G3 processor card, or
with a slow one) the best thing to do is to choose that "OS9 Classic"
application and forget about the Carbon one.
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