OS 9 Applications on Tiger

[Sam Beard]

Hey Steve,

   Thanks for the input. Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the issue
was with the OS itself. I knew that the last round, I believe, of G4s as
well as the G5s didn't support dual-booting. They still ran Classic, I
believe, but not straight OS 9. I also knew that Apple wasn't porting
anything OS 9/Classic-related over to the new Intel-based Macs. I wasn't
aware that, as it appears people are saying from this thread, that Adobe
hasn't ported over Frame to run in OS X. Is that the case? Anyone heard
anything about when Adobe might be releasing an OS X version, if that is
the case?

Thanks much,

Sam Beard
Technical Communications - Special Projects
CTES - LP
936 521-2241
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:40 AM
To: Sam Beard
Cc: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

At 14:48 -0700 9/10/06, Sam Beard wrote:

>   This is intriguing to me. My understanding was that Classic, and
>therefore OS 9, wouldn't run on any of the later machines, particularly
>any Intel-based machines. Are either of you running one of these? What
>machines are you running? Are you running OS 9 in emulation of some
sort
>or as a stand-alone OS, that you can choose upon start-up?
>   In other words, more details, please! ;-P

I can see where some of this confusion is coming from.

First off, Sam, your initial assertion of 'Tiger does NOT support OS 9
in any form' is misleading (forgive my bluntness): it's not a Tiger
(i.e. OS) restriction, but a hardware restriction. All versions of OS X
have supported OS 9 in its Classic form, a software wrapper that allows
a full OS 9 to run within the OS X environment. And within that,
FrameMaker runs just fine, as long as you follow the guidelines given
here:

<http://www.fm4osx.org/classic.html>

What *is* true is that none of the most recent range of Intel-chipped
Macs run Classic. This is hardware issue: Apple chose not to port
Classic to these machines. This is a situation that a lot of clever
people are working on, as Apple appears to be unaware that many Mac
users are still dependent on legacy software. But for FrameMaker, the
option at present on these machines is to run one of the software
solutions that support Windows or Windows apps:

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/>

<http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/>

<http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/>

Finally, Peter Gold's point about dual-boot Macs only applies to older
hardware models. I forget when the last dual-boot Mac was dropped, but
you should be able to find out here:

<http://www.apple-history.com/>

Fwiw, I have a 2000-vintage Cube that is dual boot, and a 2004-vintage
G4 that is not, so it was sometime between those years.

-- 
Steve