on 12/30/03 12:58 PM, Yersinia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> <Then you are in good shape.  The 190 will run OS 8 with no problems.
> 8.1 is as high as you can go, though.  Apple removed support for 68k
> Macs (your 190 has a 68040-based microprocessor, hence the term
> "68k") in OS 8.5 and later.>
>

My mistake. OS 7.6.1 was the last a "true" 68K Os, and OS 8 the first for
Power PC computers. What I'd forgotten was that OS 8 has a reachback ability
for non-PPC code. It'll work on a 68K machine, but works better on a PPC
machine. Sorry for the mix-up. *^__^*


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