Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Wed Dec 7 20:14:57 CST 2005


> Personally I think there is a real opportunity for some software 
> company here.

Well, the situation isn't nearly that dire; there's Basilisk II and
SheepShaver, both of which do have native OS X builds. But you have to
run them within an emulator, which is kludgey and not nearly as
integrated -- if not elegant -- as Classic is.

Personally, I wonder why Apple decided to stop. I guess Steve wants to kill
the Old Ways once and for all. I suspect that was a bigger motivation for
the Intel switch than the promise of more powerful chips.

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