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[andrew clarke]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:45:45PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:

> Apple have done this several times so they have a lot of experience  
> of it.  Apple II -> Macintosh, 680x0 -> PowerPC and OS8 -> OSX and  
> now G3/4 -> Intel.  They eventually get rid of the backwards  
> compatability stuff.  I think you can still run OS8 stuff in MacOS X  
> but why would you?  You can turn off the OS9 emulator and most people  
> do.  I don't know if it still runs on MacInteltoshes though.

If you really need to run 680x80 Mac OS software on newer machines there
is an open source emulator you can use called Basilisk II.  There are OS
X, Linux, BSD & Windows ports of it.  The OS X port is at
http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/

AFAIK, it will run all versions of Mac OS up to 8.0.