On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 10:22 AM, Robert Patterson Finale wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Johannes Gebauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Contemporary Hardware you cannot run OS 9 direct anyway.
Actually, this is a false statement. A couple of models still for sale at the Apple store will boot OS9 directly.
Those are 2002 model G4s -- the "mirrored drive door" model. They aren't "contemporary" by any stretch, so Johannes's statement is not false. And the fact that Apple continues to sell old hardware on its site (and will probably do so only until current stocks are depleted) doesn't really lend much support to your argument.
Furthermore, for a few more days yet, the vaunted G5's are still vapor and cannot be counted as "contemporary".
Uh, no. They began shipping yesterday.
Even audio-system vendors like MOTU and Digidesign are continuing to sell OS9-compatible versions of their software.
There's a big difference between "continuing to sell old versions" and "continuing to invest in and develop for OS 9," which almost no one is doing.
Just because maintaining a dual-platform version of audio programs is impractical does not mean those vendors are ignoring OS9 yet.
Robert, if they are no longer developing for OS 9 -- and most of them are not -- then I'm sorry, but they *are* ignoring OS 9. When I said OS 9 was dead, I didn't mean that Apple and third party developers were hunting down OS 9 users and killing them in their sleep. I just meant that hardly anyone is still developing new or updated software for OS 9.
- Darcy
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