Since Apple realised it would take them a few releases before Mac OS X was ready for general use (I’d say they hit it at 10.3), and because it would take developers a while before they had adapted to the new developer tools and paradigms, Apple included the Classic Environment.Ĭlassic was a software layer which used a MacOS 9 system folder and a New World ROM to run OS9 applications within Mac OS X. When Apple released Mac OS X 10.0, the operating system was virtually unusable, and not at all ready for prime time. I wish I could’ve added this to the first impressions article, but I only arrived at this conclusion yesterday: desktop mode in Windows 8 is Microsoft’s equivalent of Mac OS X’s Classic mode. Still, there’s one thing I’d like to talk about: the desktop mode in Windows 8. As you may have seen, David’s been taking care of OSNews for a few days because I’m quite busy with work.
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