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cymon:
Which I doubt they have. Until there's a radical hardware change in the PC market, people are not going to use EFI. Why would Apple have a BIOS emulator, they want you to buy their hardware?
themacuser:
Didn't Gateway have EFI in their machines sometime?
worker201:
I just found out that the new Intel Macs have no support for Classic mode. Meaning that OS9 backwards compat is gone, over, finished. Now, this doesn't mean shit to me, since I don't use any Classic apps, and don't even have Classic mode installed on my Mac. But some people apparently still have these ancient abandonware programs that they consider mission-critical, which will never run on an Intel Mac. So with this particular facet of the move to Intel chips, a lot of diehard users will be left behind. Not that they're going to switch to Windows or anything, but it won't be the giant overnight switch Apple is pimping this as.
In Apple's defense, though, pimping ain't easy, and neither is adding some kind of crufted compatibility layer to the new OS.
Orethrius:
Yet it's surprising how many 680x0 programs will run with little more than the UNIX port of Basilisk. :cool:
M51DPS:
I am not sure Apple wants to be caught in the kind of situation as Microsoft; perpetually supporting old technology like DOS. We all knew the Classic environment would was only there to ease the transititioin, people got the hint when new Macs could no longer boot into Mac OS 9. Classic was not going to stay around forever.
Just out of curiosity, what mission-critical software is there that only exists for Classic?
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