"Doesn't support" as in "will not run the Classic environment",
or
"does not ship with Classic"?
Tiger (v10.4) did not ship with Classic either.
You misunderstand, badly. You are confusing the older OS with the VM
environment in which is runs.
No, Doc is well aware of the difference -- I think he misspoke here. I'm
also pretty certain that 10.3 didn't come with OS 9 either, but obviously
runs Classic, of course. I need to go find my retail Panther box.
10.5 is the first version that is not in any way
backwardly software
compatible with previous MacOS versions.
In this way, 10.5 brings fast G4s and G5 PowerPC machines [down] to parity
with x86-based "Macintels". Now, neither can run "classic MacOS"
code.
T,FTFY. ;)
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