Re: It Just Underscores the Point!

"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
13i4o2klov4418d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 10/26/07 2:47 PM:

"Snit" <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C347A20F.95E55%CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A few years only. Apple was still shipping OS 9 preinstalled
through 2001. That's not even a decade ago.

I don't know when the last OS 9 application was released,
or when they stopped being sold in the usual chanels. But surely
not before then.

Though most were carbon by then... not Classic.

I should be quite surprised if they were, if by
by this you mean they were OS X-compatible;
there was quite a dearth of apps for OS X that
first year, as I recall. If that was all the Mac releases
that there were, the platform was rather more
completely moribund than I had thought.

Remember, it's not enough to just the new and nicer
Carbon APIs to avoid being consigned to Classic
status. You have to not use anything else.

There were a lot of apps that moved to Carbon... though clearly not all.
Heck, schools I know still have some Classic apps - though those are no
longer going to be used because of the move to Intel.


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