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Apple To Prevent Booting Into Mac OS 9?

Posted by pudge on from the from-pig-to-man-and-from-man-to-pig dept.

A user writes that eWeek reports "A tweak to new models in its Macintosh line of desktop and portable computers will prevent booting into Mac OS 9, sources said, leaving the Unix-based Mac OS X as the sole operating system." That's a great idea, if they want to prevent people from upgrading their hardware, and to future versions of Mac OS X. I hope it's merely a rumor; there's apparently no technical reason for it, so if true, I imagine it is just to force more people to adopt the Mac OS X.

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  1. That was inflamatory. by jkujawa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every new version of Mac hardware has traditionally shipped with a bumped version of MacOS, that includes device drivers specific to the new hardware.

    They have EOLed MacOS 9, and are focusing development on X. They're not breaking compatibility deliberately. They're just not devoting resources to make a dead operating system run on the new hardware.

    You'll still be able to use OS 9 from Classic mode. They're just not providing device drivers to boot it.

    Chill.