7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
11:32 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
the
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>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
>
> PPC applications written for the G3 under Carbon. That means Classic
apps
-- including
68K apps -- will probably die in the future.
What bothers me is: How hard is it to include an emulator? Who cares if emulator is 100x as slow as the real thing when
you're running it on a
machine
that is capable of running OS X or Windows Vista?
--
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I don't see the point of having so much legacy support in newer OS versions
(it is more complicated and has more code to create bugs). If there is a
need for such things then some company will develop a means of using your
older software via an emulator. Besides what is so hard about keeping a
legacy system in the house if you really need to run a 10 year old app on
occasion? OS developers should concentrate on making their OS stable and
reliable plus having good APIs, not in programming emulators and other
add-ons.