Subj : Re: Macs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 09:39:03

  Re: Re: Macs
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Jan 09 2024 06:40 am

 Ni>> Tiger). The G4 that I bought had OS X 10.4.11 on it, and I upgraded it to
 Ni>> 10.5.6. I rememebr those versions of OS X having an OS 9 compatibility
 Ni>> layer (which I think was an actual copy of OS 9), and I've debated

 PF> I thought they just emulated a 68K mac, not that it was a separate OS
 PF> running.

Around 2004, I bought a used Mac with OS X and it had the OS 9 compatibility, and I remember it starting a separate environment to run OS 9 apps, and it looked like a VM or similar.  And some OS 9 apps could run on PowerPC too..

Apparently it was called the "Classic Environment":
https://shorturl.at/dmsEU

Full link:
https://everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/last-macs-to-supp ort-macos-9-classic.html

Nightfox
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