unfortunately, classic isn't always very useful. you can set a machine up to boot into os 9 or os x, just by having them on different partitions and selecting the boot partition you want. however, os x does "modify" the os 9.x system folder, though i'm not sure why or to what extent, and i honestly don't know if it can cause problems when booting on the os 9.x partition, it seems not to, at least usually.
classic, unfortunately is run on top of os x, and indeed does not load the control panels or extensions in the os 9 folder. however, as i said, you can have a partition for each, and that usually seems to work well for those applications that don't work in classic (including some that don't use any of their own extensions or control panels), though most well written applications work fine in classic mode. in classic you have the added crash protection provided by X, if os 9 or a program crashes in it the whole machine doesn't crash, you can kill os 9 or the crashed application and simply launch classic and the os 9 application again (classic will automatically start up when an os 9 app is told to run, or you can set it to always run in X, as well as being able to tell os 9 to shutdown if it isn't used for a specified time period, pretty nice actually). myself, i haven't played with os x as much as i want because i don't have a good hardware firewall yet, and i want that while i'm learning X since i'll be using the web, and *nix is a completely different set of security problems etc. that i just won't understand at first, besides i want a hardware firewall anyway, there is just too much spyware and virus problems out there. i use a software firewall now, and even on a dialup line with a dynamic ip i get an amazing number of incursion attempts, which often create a denial of service effect just because of the number of attempts from different machines or from an aggressive machine, and i've run into some pretty obnoxious and rapidly repeated incursion attempts that just tie up all the bandwidth. in any case, you can have both systems on the same machine, and things that don't need thier own drivers, extensions or control panels usually work well in classic. it sounds like that machine has plenty of ram to try os x on, and you can usually get 10.2x install cd's pretty cheaply, i think 10.3 is still a bit of a problem on some of the g3 machines and seems to have an inordinate number of bugs anyway, though doubtless those will be fixed soon (i'm on a developer list (several), and a lot of peripherals don't work properly under 10.3 in addition to some programs though apple seems to be addressing things aggressively). Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote: --------- > I'm also absolutely clueless how OSX runs OS9 applications. What exactly > is the classic mode ? A dual boot option? An emulation on top of a > running OSX? What kind of performance should it have compared to a true > 9.2.2? Could a classic emulation application use the underlying hardware > drivers of OSX (Toast, scanners,...?) or where would I put the OS) > drivers for scanning? --------- -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
