5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
1:19 p.m.
On 05/10/2007, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 8:41 PM -0700 10/4/07, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yep. Although to be fair, I have few Macs so old they can't run MacOS
8.1 and it networks happily with Tiger boxes over TCP/IP.
But yes, I entirely agree.
OTOH, Apple's market now is x86 boxes and its competition is Windows.
A Macintel can dual-boot to Windows or run it in a fairly seamless VM.
With the best will in the world, to most people - including, I must
reluctantly admit, me - that is (or would be) vastly more use than
running MacOS 9 in a VM!
I happily run Linux, but if money were no object, I'd be on OS X on a
Mac Pro, with Wine for a few legacy Windows apps - or possibly
Parallels Desktop, as it's cheap and it runs Windows seamlessly - i.e.
Windows apps' windows merged with OS X apps on the same shared
desktop. On a quad-core or octo-core machine with 4G of RAM, I could
afford a copy of W2K in a VM. I'd never notice the load, I'm sure. The
thing that saddens me is that if you do this, you suddenly have to do
all that tired old dancing around with legions of MS updates and
antivirus and antispyware and so on in Windows on your nice clean safe
Mac.
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This is semi-OT, but if you use an OS X capable
Power Mac to run legacy Mac
software, 10.5 apparently no longer supports Classic even on PowerPC machines.
http://www.lowendmac.com/mail/mb07/0716.html#2
This is a shame, since a lot of early Mac software will surprisingly still
run on my G5 running Tiger. In fact, I use an old System 6-era version of
Caere OmniPage for simple OCR tasks since it's so unbelievably fast by
comparison.
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OK, that <bad word> STINKS! Just the night before last I had to fire
up ClarisDraw as even though I own copies of more modern drawing
app's, nothing works as well. First in 10.4 they dropped support for
classic AppleTalk breaking things for me, now this. Well, we may
just stay on 10.4.x for the next few years. As a result of the
Appletalk issue I didn't upgrade to 10.4 till earlier this year, even
though I bought it the day it came out.