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Originally posted by Cipher13: Very different situation, there. OS X is a complete rewrite, with totally new foundations. Most System 7 apps work in 8 or 9 regardless; or have been updated to do so. Etc. Not so for OS X. I've rebooted five or six times in the last few days, back to OS9, to play Korea or UT or something similar. |
I'm guessing you haven't been around long enough to remember the System 6 -> System 7 transition then.
System 7 broke nearly everything. Close to none of the System 6 software worked on it, especially games. System 7 broke apps left and right. And it didn't even have a Classic environment to keep the old stuff working like X does.
It was a much worse situation than OS 9 -> OS X. But Apple didn't waste manpower then by continuing to support System 6 for all eternity.