> Could anyone decisively explain Apple's policy on backwards compatibility
> regarding the new OS and older software?

Hi

Is there anything in particular? (other than Quark!)

Apple's policy is mostly based on Apple repeatedly telling developers not to
rely on features of OS 9 and earlier. There may well be future releases of
OS 9 (9.3 etc), but these will not boot into anything other than 'the
classic environment' They will have the advantage of being able to replace
large areas of old code. This should make the classic environment faster and
less resource hungry -- they are very aware of many users who still rely on
quark.

I know of no plans either to drop 68k code support in classic. This is
important to me since several of my best bits of work avoidance software
(games) date from the late eighties...


bye for now   

Keith Cooper

Northlight Images
http://northlight-images.co.uk
Photography - Digital Imaging - Apple Mac Consultancy

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