[TCLCORE] Re: Maintainer for Mac OS 8/9

[Donald G P. <dg...@em...>]

> I am pretty sure the eMacs (the low-cost All-In-One CRT based model 
> that was originally intended only for the education market) still boot 
> into Mac OS 9. 

I'll give you my data point.  I purchased an eMac more than a year ago,
about when Jaguar was first being released.  It came with Mac OS X 10.1.x
installed, and we upgraded to Jaguar shortly after purchase.  We have
recently installed Panther on it.

Mac OS 9 is apparently part of the system, and if we ever try to start
an application that expects to work with OS 9, an emulation window
starts up that apparently provides the needed Mac OS 9 interface.

I can't speak in any technical detail about what processes may be running
deep under the hood at boot time (if that's what "boot into Mac OS 9"
is supposed to refer to), but our eMac has never given the impression
it runs anything other than Mac OS X.

| Don Porter          Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| don...@ni...             Information Technology Laboratory |
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