Neville, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>But there isn't an OSX application called "Classic" is there.
Try and do an info on "/Library/CoreServices/Classic". What does it say?


>To the Mac OS 9 operating system that it hosts, Classic appears as a new 
>hardware platform. It implements hardware services using the Mac OS X 
>kernel environment (particularly the I/O Kit). The Classic environment is 
>not an emulator; Mac OS 9 runs natively in it. It is visually and 
>functionally compatible with the rest of Mac OS X so that to users<with 
>the exceptions noted in "Integration With Mac OS X")<it is largely 
>indistinguishable from the other environments of Mac OS X.

Ok, so it isn't an emulator per se, but I never claimed it to be either
:) But classic OS 9 System sees hardware only trough OS X's Classic
application and Classic the application itself runs inside OS X as a
native X application. Did that make it easer to understand?

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