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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 20 Apr 2015 18:53:22 GMT
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On 2015-04-20, Marc Stibane <spamfalle2@arcor.de> wrote:
> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>> Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> wrote:
>>> On 2015-03-31, D.F. Manno <dfmanno@mail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> There are reasons they scrapped OS 9 and started from scratch on X.
>>> Yes, because they bought NeXT, adopted that OS, and renamed it.
>> That is the major reason they bought NeXT, so they could scrap Mac OS 9
>> and start from scratch.
>
> And there was nothing wrong with that - because of "Classic", a
> compatibility layer that allowed you to execute MacOS 9 applications on
> OS X.
>
> This was a nice working software, and I really don't understand why
> Apple ever stopped supporting it. They should even have ported it to
> Intel IMO - would have gotten them a few more hardware sales.

It probably became too costly (and not just monetarily) to continue
supporting Classic in OS X. If I need to run classic versions of Mac OS,
I use SheepShaver or Basilisk II. You can also get 10.6 up and running
in VirtualBox to use Classic if desired.

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JR