On 8/14/03, Rick Gordon wrote: >Hi, Mark, > >Good to see you here. So many of us have been waiting for some kind of word >suggesting that there will be a way past NW6 before Apple kills Classic. The response >I see here and in the forums shows that hardcore Nisus users can't make much use of >Express compared to what we have had. Please give us some kind of hint.
We should note here: Apple will not "kill" Classic. It's going to be around for as long as it can run. It won't get updated -- there will be no OS 9.4 to run in classic -- but it will still be there for as long as the hardware can support it. Which will probably be a long time. To illustrate, I observe that my current Mac -- which was built something like eight years after Apple went to the PowerPC architecture -- still runs 680X0 code, including Word 5.1 and some even more ancient software. (I have one thing written in *1986* which still runs. With some quirks -- screen redraws are funny, since it still uses an 8-color screen model -- but it runs.) What Apple is killing is the "boot in OS 9" model. Not the same thing at all. -- Bob Waltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The one thing we learn from history -- is that no one ever learns from history." --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
