Mac OS Back-Compatibility [Was Re: [LINK] Microsoft]

[Antony Barry]

On 06/08/2006, at 2:55 PM, Eleanor Lister wrote:

> Roger Clarke wrote:
>> At 13:29 +1000 6/8/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>> I wonder how Apple went when they switched from OS9 to OSX.  Can  
>>> any of the Apple aficionados shed some light on the backward  
>>> compat of these two.
>> ... snip ...
>
>> No, I'm not a happy Appler any more (and I'm a user since the  
>> second shipment of Macs to Australia in April 1984, and prior to  
>> that an occasional Apple II, IIe and Lisa user).
>>
> curiously, i used Apple ][ and then all the Macs up to the SE, came  
> back 15+ years later with an iBook G4 running OS-X and has X11  
> support as well ... it's quite nice, IMHO, and i use OpenOffice 2.0  
> on it, never crashes, i don't even know what a crash would look like.


My experience is similar to Eleanor's

I'm running -

G4 iBook 1.33Ghz 500meg MacOS 10.4.7
G4 iMac 800Mhz 1Gig MacOS 10.4.7 with MacOS 9.2.2 emulator
G3 Powerbook 96Meg MacOS9.2.2

I've had almost no trouble running old applications on the iMac even  
shareware dating back to the early 1990s - other than MacOS 9 likely  
to crash but it seems more stable that MacOS 8. I think there was a  
game that wouldn't run but I've forgotten what it was.

The iMac runs apache and postfix so it runs all the time. Until  
recently it was also my day to day machine and I would normally have  
more than a dozen applications running and the OS has been rock  
solid. I think I've only had two crashes in almost three years. One  
generated a screen in multiple languages which, if I remember  
rightly, told me to turn it off and the start up again. Most of the  
time it had very little free memory. Some of the applications would  
die from time to time but the OS just ran forever. So maybe an OS  
crash every year or so.

Tony

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