Apple To Prevent Booting Into Mac OS 9?

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.

Comments

Re:That was inflamatory.

[BitGeek]

Yeah, you CAN"T run software that violated apple's programming guides going back to 1984!

Any software written for the Mac that does those things is software that violates the programming guides.

Software that doesn't runs great on Classic. And I've had a fun time finding the oldest piece of software I can and trying it out. I have software written in 1987 that runs under classic.

Re:Stupid user: Explain to me

[BitGeek]

This article is just plane wrong.

Yes, you can do things with cocoa that you can't with carbon. Carbon has sufficient aaccess to the machine to do all the important things you want to do-- but cocoa is a whole different way of working, and it is much superior to carbon.

Yes, Cocoa applications are MORE NATIVE than carbon. Cocoa is the development environemtn Next made... .carbon is based on the old MAc OS.

Use Cocoa. They are not equivilent. Carbon is great if you need to move a lot of old mac os code over, but otherwise, you should use cocoa. In the areas where you need to call carbon apis (because apple moved the stuff over rather than rewriting it, like quicktime) you can... no problemo. But cocoa is a lot better.

And more native.

And provides things you cannot do in carbon, no way, no how. (Like delegation, protocols, nibs, and categories are glorious.)