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Originally posted by vmarks: It wasn't something that was 'taken away' - it was just something that wasn't added. Each new machine model uses different hardware (or else why would you want a new machine?) Each new machine had to have parts of OS 9 re-written in order to be able to boot on the new machine. Apple has decided that devoting development dollars and manpower to OS 9 is a losing proposition, and has straddled supporting two very different OS releases for long enough. |
baloney!
apple did it to nudge [force] people to migrate to os x faster and developers to upgrade their products to x.
os 9 is still very usable and as long as machines could boot into it people were inclined to stick with it because they were familiar with it.