actually, unlike pc systems, the mac os is fairly tolerant of mixing extension from different systems. i still have an imagewriter (because it's cheap to run, and i have it) under os 9.1, which doesn't have a local talk driver for it, so i use one from os 8.6, no problems at all.
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