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tomra
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May 19, 2002, 02:10 PM
 
Hi.

Sorry if this already had been covered, but since OS9.X is no longer "supported"....could this mean that the current revision of Towers are the last ones which will ship with OS 9.X?

If so....i guess i`ll need one of the current towers to run OS.9.X since OS`s are not backward compatible?!

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May 19, 2002, 02:15 PM
 
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May 19, 2002, 02:19 PM
 
More regarding your question:

Officially the OS is supported. Steve Jobs simply said -to developers- that OS 9 is dead. Basically indicating that Apple has no plans to update or fix ANY issues that the OS has.

Steve didn't say that Classic was dead.

The next computers will have OSX and Classic, but no OS 9... But that is still some time off. Education and graphics people will take at least two years before the transformation is complete. Remember that there are still people out there running Windows 95!
     
tomra  (op)
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May 19, 2002, 03:48 PM
 
Hi.

Thanks for your reply...very helpful

Eh...what`s the difference between "classic" and "OS9"?
Does it mean you can only access "classic" in...well, classic mode?
Will i be unable to boot and use it as i`m using OS.9.X today?
Is this the case wth today`s OS.9.2....something?

Sorry for what might be dumb question, but i`m still in OS.9.1 and have yet to find a real practical reason to upgrade

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May 19, 2002, 04:46 PM
 
I'm sort of in the same boat... I have to use 9.x a lot due to audio work and some graphic stuff. Hopefully my programs will be upgraded soon so I have no reason to boot into 9.


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May 19, 2002, 05:03 PM
 
audio has a bit of work on OSX... I hope to see more X apps in this area later this year...

I hear that 10.2 will fix some of the issues that the developers are having...
     
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May 19, 2002, 10:32 PM
 
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
<STRONG>More regarding your question:

Officially the OS is supported. Steve Jobs simply said -to developers- that OS 9 is dead. Basically indicating that Apple has no plans to update or fix ANY issues that the OS has.

Steve didn't say that Classic was dead.

The next computers will have OSX and Classic, but no OS 9... But that is still some time off. Education and graphics people will take at least two years before the transformation is complete. Remember that there are still people out there running Windows 95!</STRONG>
I'm a little confused here. Where did you get information that "The next computers will have OS X and Classic, but no OS 9....?" Apple is very secretive about product release and I don't remember any official statement from Apple to this effect. I also was under the belief that if you don't have OS 9 loaded on your machine, you don't have Classic! If you launch Classic from System Preferences, OS 9 launches. Could someone clarify this for me? I've not tried my machine without OS 9 on it, so I don't know for sure if Classic can be run without OS 9.
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May 20, 2002, 02:36 AM
 
Could someone clarify this for me? I've not tried my machine without OS 9 on it, so I don't know for sure if Classic can be run without OS 9.
As a former developer on the Mac OS X Classic team at Apple, I can tell you that the Classic environment will most certainly NOT run without Mac OS 9 installed.

Without your Mac OS 9 System Folder, Classic (as you know it) does not exist. There are a few components that enable Classic to run, that aren't part of the traditional Mac OS 9. These include the "Classic" enabler in your System Folder (though this is active when 9 is running natively), the MacOSROM file (acts as the traditional Mac OS ROM file), and the TruBlueEnvironment application which acts as a proxy between the virtual environment and the host environment.

While these components augment or replace key parts of Mac OS 9, the rest of the Mac OS 9 System Folder is required (such as the System File, the extensions, etc) as well.

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May 20, 2002, 03:14 AM
 
What's ProxyApp for? It's one of the items OS X installs in the Classic System Folder. Also, consider these points:

1. Firmware updates require you to boot into Mac OS 9.
2. The software restore CDs that come with new Macs boot you into 9.
3. In case of emergency, you may need to boot into 9, because OS X takes up too much space to fit on a CD-ROM uncompressed. The OS X install CD does not have a Finder.
4. OS 9 is easier to work with if you realise you are missing a component. For example, if you didn't install CloseView with 9.1 and are now running 9.22, you can use TomeViewer to extract the file(A few minutes). If you forgot to install something with 10.1 and are now running 10.14, Apple says to erase the partition and start over(Several hours).

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May 20, 2002, 05:48 AM
 
Originally posted by AppleScript:
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3. In case of emergency, you may need to boot into 9, because OS X takes up too much space to fit on a CD-ROM uncompressed. The OS X install CD does not have a Finder.
This is untrue. The OS X install CD boots into X, and it has other stuff on it. There are third party utilities that will let you make OSX boot discs with whatever you want on them. I think OSX comes out to only a few hundred megs.
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May 20, 2002, 12:10 PM
 
Originally posted by benh57:
<STRONG>

This is untrue. The OS X install CD boots into X, and it has other stuff on it. There are third party utilities that will let you make OSX boot discs with whatever you want on them. I think OSX comes out to only a few hundred megs.</STRONG>
Yeah, that should be the case. It's a bit of a far cry from OS9 though, where the DiskWarrior booting CD takes roundabout 100Megs...
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May 20, 2002, 12:17 PM
 
Originally posted by benh57:
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This is untrue. The OS X install CD boots into X, and it has other stuff on it. There are third party utilities that will let you make OSX boot discs with whatever you want on them. I think OSX comes out to only a few hundred megs.</STRONG>
I didn't say that the OS X install didn't boot into X. I said that it doesn't have a Finder. Try to get access to the Finder when booted off the install CD. My OS X install comes to 1.23GB.

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May 20, 2002, 12:19 PM
 
I expect Apple to eventually design Macs that have OS9 in the form of "classic" (runs from within OSX) but are not capable of booting into OS9 by itself.

My guess is about a year from now...
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May 20, 2002, 12:42 PM
 
Originally posted by AppleScript:
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I didn't say that the OS X install didn't boot into X. I said that it doesn't have a Finder. Try to get access to the Finder when booted off the install CD. My OS X install comes to 1.23GB.

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Read his post:
There are third party utilities that will let you make OSX boot discs with whatever you want on them
the one I know of was written by one of the guys at these forums. Charles_S? Am not sure. Someone will point you in the right direction I am sure. I have a bootable osx disc somewhere with Finder, Terminal and a few other Utilities.
     
   
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