Hasn't this been the case with many an OS? I don't think you can say it's the beginning of the end though X is a superior OS over the legacy stuff, it doesn't mean that you need to call it doom on pre-X OSes. This is what I thought when OS 8 and up came about. I work in education (on the frontlines to be exact ;) ) and as an educator I know first hand what a change of OSes can do to a school. OS 9 can't run my old versions of Reader Rabbit or Math Blaster but hell if I'm going to try to get the latest version if my current ones serve the same purpose albeit on an older system. I'm damn lucky that I stuck with Mac since I have at my disposal several great education programs that run perfectly on my IIsi operating on 7.1. The newer ones can run on my 7300/200 with 9.1 and all my personal business I do on my B&W.
I say I'm lucky because my school board is pure PC (my classroom contains the only 2 Macs in the school) and trying to run Reader Rabbit 1 through XP is a chore. I kept getting the message that it only runs in 256 colours and going to display settings I noticed that 256 is not offered, hence I thought I couldn't run it. Then I found out that by going into the program's properties I could check off a box that allows me to run the program in 256 mode but it now looks like a negative. As well other programs only wanted to be run in smaller screen sizes. Still haven't figured how to do this since it won't let me operate any lower than 800X600. Though support for legacy is basically phased out, Macs were built to last and they give you more run for your money than the PC boxes out there. I've noticed most programs don't really offer significant upgrades in features anyway. Stick to what you've got if it works just fine. You don't need Office X to write a letter or Entourage to send e-mail. on 9/10/02 9:02 PM, Mothra at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No OS X has been a beta for nearly three years up until the release of > Jaguar. > Finally they got one release right, still incomplete though, but it seems > now its all on the software companies to catch up. > >> But it is a sign of the beginning of the end. X has been out over two >> years now hasn't it? It will have been out nearly three when this >> starts, and probably four or five years before legacy support is >> phased out. -- "We're all on the same sinking ship; it's just some of us were volunteered to be the captains." -- anonymous "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" -- Dr. Evil from Goldmember. -- -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
