7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
9:40 p.m.
What's really water under the bridge is 16-bit
mode in Windows. Vista
doesn't support it, period. Maybe someone will write a 16-bit emulator
for Vista and we'll get to keep our old apps in some form.
I can understand MS wanting to deprecate a lot of the PC legacy features.
NT startup has to be one of the more complex computing tasks around and I
suspect that the folks in Redmond have envied Apple for a long time in not
having to accomodate all sorts of bizarre departures from the norm in
hardware. All of which has me wondering how much longer things like
8237-type-DMA will be part of the PC platform.
They won't envy Apple for much longer. Based on the specs for Rosetta (the
JIT PPC->x86 translator for the impending Intel Macs), it will only run
PPC applications written for the G3 under Carbon. That means Classic apps
-- including 68K apps -- will probably die in the future.
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