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Originally posted by vmarks: It wasn't something that was 'taken away' - it was just something that wasn't added. |
You're wrong, it was taken away. know why I know this?
The G4s that are not "dual boot" can boot into OS 9 with a little hacking. they also came with a boot disk to boot into OS 9. they copied a file on the OS 9 boot disk to the system folder on the hdd, to get it to work, forgot which one it was...
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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. [quote] its not like they added that much new hardware, a faster proc(which you don't have to fix os 9 to use) and FW800, which they didn't have to add. simply say that FW800 will not work. they would not have to devote any dollars and/or manpower to get OS 9 to work on G4s(really G4e...) that work was already done many years ago Now, if the G5s were the first computers that could not run OS X, then that would be differnt. As they don't only have a brand new proc, but a new chip set as well. [quote] 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. |
So, devoting development dollars and manpower to disable OS 9 was a better idea? this was done.
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OS X is far more flexible in addressing the hardware it can run on. This means that each new release of hardware won't require a specific OS X cd for that model unless it's something as huge as the processor changeover in G5, which required 10.2.7 while everyone else used 10.2.6. |
agreed.
however, the only reason why you can't run system 7 on a new world mac(iMac and everything after that) is because of the new world ROM. The ROM in the older macs not only had instructions to boot the computer but also, had some of the MacToolbox. which also had some instructions that were used after the comp booted up. But the new world Macs did not have. if it wasn't for changing over to the new world ROM, you could run System 7, if you really wanted to, on an iMac. But because they split the ROM and put most of it in a ROM file in the system folder, you can't. which BTW, is the reason you claim thats why you cant boot into OS 9 on the G4s(new hardware, have to update system to get it to work) as I have proven is un-true.
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Can you come up with a dollar-value case as to how much profit they gaind by paying developers to NOT make it work on the newer G4s? it did take time and effort.
OS X is the fastest OS switchover in history, everything was going good. why spend money on something that would make people mad? we were doing what they wanted usyou could not really make the switchover any faster then it was.
that being the case, its over with now. its all in the past. I cant remember the last time I booted into 9, not even to play UT...