There are still applications that will run on the last
version of OS 9
that were written for the original Mac.
Heck, I have a game I remember playing on the Mac Plus that works fine on
my G5 under Classic. That's compatibility! (ZeroGravity, a game I spent
hours playing -- still need to port this to the Commodore 64.)
Adherence to backwards compatibility really was why it
was impossible
for Apple to come up with a replacement for MacOS until someone (Jobs)
finally cut the cord. This was impossible from the bottom up, no one at
the top was willing to have old applications break en mass.
Even so, backwards compatibility is extraordinarily good, even for apps that
are not Carbon.
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-- This manual has been carefully for errors to make sure correct. -- classiccmp