[Ham-Mac] Winradio on MacosX : MacRadio

[Mike Murphree]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:04:32PM -0500, Dana Rawding wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple drop all support for classic on 
> future versions of OSX.  When OSX came out it ran on all sorts of older 
> hardware (604's, etc).  When Jaguar came out it officially supported 
> only G3 or better based machines.  When Panther came out it supports 
> only new world ROM machines (colored iMacs or better).  As they convert 
> more and more of the OSX code base to 64 bit (for the G5) I'd be 
> surprised to see them bring the classic emulator along.

Emulator is a strong word in this sense.  Mac OS 9 is still native
PowerPC code running on a PowerPC system.  So this "emulation" only
requires some clever hackery to supply the Mac OS 9 APIs in OS X.
If Apple chooses to drop support for it, there are still projects like
MOL (Mac on Linux) that could be ported to Mac OS X and provide support
for it indefinitely.

Mike W4LNA