On Aug 4, 2005, at 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
What exactly is meant by "classic" ?
I've seen both software and hardware that has stated compatible
with Mac
Classic.
Classic, strictly speaking, means the Mac OS 9 environment in OS X,
but usage is slipping to mean any Mac OS before OS X.
Also with Mac OS #.X.X so does this mean if a machine is loaded
with
say..8.0 then it could be upgraded to 8.1 then up and up from
there or at least
until reaching the limits of the machine.
Not necessarily. There are upgrades and updates.
System 7.5.5 is available free from Apple on their web site.
Systems 7.6, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 were paid upgrades, meaning you have
to buy them to get to that level. In between versions were free
updates 8.1, 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, etc.
To apply an upDATE, like 8.6, you need some version of the
immediately preceding upGRADE, 8.5 to be installed.
An upGRADE can be applied to any Mac supported by that version
without regard to any earlier OS on the system.
With OS X this has been simplified considerably.
Each major point release: 10.0, 10.1*, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 are paid
upgrades.
Each minor point release: 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.6, etc are updates for
that major point release.
*10.1, wasn't a 'paid' upgrade, but that's largely because 10.0 was
essentially an unusable alpha release of the OS and Apple's customers
would have burned 1 Infinite Loop to the ground had they made us pay
for it. They did charge $20 for the CD, but it was soon downloadable.
10.2 was the first truly ready-for-prime-time release of OS X.
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