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To: njmaugbill
So old software does run on newer macs.

It's not "running" in the classic sense. It's being emulated. So your performance and mileage may vary.
517 posted on 03/13/2005 2:19:15 PM PST by Bush2000
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To: Bush2000

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518 posted on 03/13/2005 2:21:57 PM PST by dennisw (100% fun)
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To: Bush2000
It's not "running" in the classic sense. It's being emulated. So your performance and mileage may vary.

It's funny... Bush2000 making statements about something he has never done...

Actually, the experience is that most "classic" software runs BETTER in the emulation mode than it did on a native OS9- system.

522 posted on 03/13/2005 9:46:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Bush2000
It's not "running" in the classic sense. It's being emulated. So your performance and mileage may vary.

Haven't we explained this to you before? Classic is OS 9 running inside of OS X -- not emulated, just running. If you think back a few years, it's almost like how you could run 16-bit apps in Windows 95, they're not emulated, but run in their own separate space with a 16-bit layer.

As far as performance goes, the OS 9 environment gets to take advantage of the superior OS X memory management (it's modified to do so when used in Classic), so applications run faster in Classic than in a machine booted straight into OS 9, which would be using only its own crappy memory management.

531 posted on 03/13/2005 11:35:40 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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