Jeremy Derr writes: >On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Bryce Lee wrote: > >> In this ongoing struggle to understand why any one company would blend >> two >> completely different operating systems together >> (OS 9.2 and OSX 10) together > >this may be where your confusion lays. the two OS's are not blended >together. they have nothing to do with each other, in fact. they just >happen to reside on the same hard drive. they have no bearing on each >other. period.
This is incorrect. Mac OS 9.0 and later have been tweaked and tuned and modified to make the classic Mac OS work more like OS X (for instance, creating an Applications folder for classic Mac applications) and to function better when the classic environment is running inside Mac OS X. Mac OS X is specifically written to identify classic Mac programs and launch OS 9 in the classic environment. It also knows how to use some classic Mac OS resources, such as fonts installed in the System Folder. It is absolutely wrong so say that the two operating systems have no bearing on each other. They are intimately related. No, they are not blended, but they are designed to work very well together. >> And if I did have both operating systems, are they realy separate if >> the hard drive is parititioned and they are then installed, 9.2 on one >> partition and X on the other. >> >> In my book they are still on the same physical disc so crossover could >> be possible, or is it? > >not possible, really. the two OS's are so drastically different that >there are no common file or even file-types between them. in fact, even >if crossover WERE possible, partitioning wouldn't prevent it from >happening -- partitioning is a construct for humans, the computer >mostly ignores the partitioning. More nonsense. As noted above, Mac OS X will use fonts in the OS 9 System Folder. That means font files *are* compatible between the two operating systems. Both also support QuickTime, plain text files, and other file types. Further, partitioning is not "a construct for humans" that the computer mostly ignores. Partitioning is a construct that lets the computer treat parts of a single hard drive as multiple hard drives. For instance, you could have one partition with OS X 10.1.5, another with Jaguar, a third with OS 9, and still another with OS 8 if you so desired. Or two with Jaguar -- one for your primary work, another that allows you to run diagnostics on the main partition without having to boot into the classic Mac OS or from a slow CD. Computers most emphatically *do not* ignore partitioning. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Mediocrity thrives on standardization. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
