chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 6/15/05 4:41 PM: > Unless your worker bee friend at Apple is running 10.4 on an Intel based > Mac... guess what, they have Classic installed. You don't have a choice. > There is no option in OS X to install or not install Classic.
> Classic does NOT have to support both PPC and non PPC apps. OS 9 has to > support both. Classic only has to support OS 9, nothing more. Wise Chris may be right about this in some cases, but sorry, Chris, you're not correct about this in all cases. Witness: 1) No, you don't have Classic or OS 9.x installed by default. I recently did a clean install on a blank HD of Mac OS 10.3.9 on an older Dalmatian iMac. I put in the first install disk of OS X, hit "Install," and let it do the work. The iMac restarted and ran beautifully, but there was no Classic and no OS 9.x on the Mac. I then put in Disk 2, and hit "Install." I expected that I would get Classic installed (i.e., support for OS 9.x). When I restarted, I found that OS 10.3.9 did have 10.3.9, Classic and OS 9.2 on the iMac. I did not install OS 9.2. It was somehow installed by Disk 2 of OS 10.3.9's installer. 2) I have seen Classic run OS 9.1 and OS 9.2. In my experience, OS 9.2 runs in Classic better than OS 9.1 does. However, many older applications written for old Mac OS do not run well in OS 9.2 in Classic. Sometimes, we find on a dual-boot iMac that an OS 9 PPC-native application will run in OS 9.2, and another OS 9 PPC-native application will not. If we reboot the iMac directly into OS 9.1 (not OS X with Classic with OS 9.2), then we can run the application. There is the same variability for old (non-PPC-native) applications. Most will run in 9.1. Some will run in 9.2. Some will run in 9.2 in Classic. It's variable. Some won't work at all past OS 8.x. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
