You know, I just don't get where this comes from:
At 12:20 PM -0700 9/11/02, George Mogiljansky wrote: >Sorry, Ben: >Apple won't support Classic in 2003, Computers are evolving. Your computer hardware today is not doing anything less than when you bought it. If you want it to do more, you need to upgrade. Upgrading a Mac remains less problematic than upgrading windows. > has code in X.2 >to prevent it's use in 'non-supported pre G3 Macs', Does XP run in a 486 or a 386? OS X.2 will run in g3's that are 6-7 years old. Will XP run in machines that old? >will or has disabled X in accelerated Macs using 3rd >party CPUs, You must mean that it is not supported for machines that run g3's off a PCI card in a 68K machine. They didn't disable it, they just didn't try to support things that they never sold, and never intended it for use. My accelerated G3 ZIF mac runs it just fine, and I haven't heard anyone running dual processor PCI cards in G3 machines complaining either. > has enabled very few video cards to work >with QE (this flying in the face of Invidia releasing >it's architecture to the Open Source crowd) and I'm >probably missing something. QE is meant to work with a certain amount of dedicated video memory using a chipset that communicates through a video transfer system, AGP, that has been the standard for several years now. The fact that it doesn't support a standard that is several years old, PCI, should not be surprising. >There are two Quicksilver (867 MHz) on local auction >today, but they were dropped in January, 2002. One had >10.04 - very sluggish. Unless you have a lot of money >and time to tweak SW and HW, you see the picture. >Clients don't know or don't see the difference - thank >Heaven. >Cheers >George What has this got to do with anything? -- 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>
