>Neville, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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>>But there isn't an OSX application called "Classic" is there.
>Try and do an info on "/Library/CoreServices/Classic". What does it say?
Where did you find this? I dont seem to have this in Jaguar?
>
>>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?
My understanding was that the "environment" simmply allowed classic
applications to make calls on the necessary hardware thus avoiding the
emulator problems of slow operation etc. Prhaps I am wrong but hey
wouldn't be the l;ogical way...?
Regards Neville
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