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When I read the section on dropping support for PowerPC-application support altogether on this version of Mac OS X, I couldn't help but think of the video of so
by sukuriant 15y ago
When I read the section on dropping support for PowerPC-application support altogether on this version of Mac OS X, I couldn't help but think of the video of someone upgrading from Windows 1.0 all the way to Windows 7, and many of the features/applications still working. Why did Mac throw out a feature they had working? Couldn't they have retained it, just not upgraded it anymore? (Or given it to the community?)
Full Disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee. These views are my own, but I am supporting our product.
- watmough 15y agoI can think of a few reasons. One is that Apple want to minimize cruft and crap bloating the install. I think my fresh install weighed in about 6 GB or so. Very nice, just 20% of a 30 GB drive. Another is that software still built with old tools and compilers will still be using old deprecated toolkits, more cruft to keep running, and likely will be unsupported, potentially creating a crappy user experience. It is really neat that really old stuff still runs on Windows, but why are people still running crappy old 16-bit software?
- sukuriant 15y agoOoooold games (DOS days) Business software
- watmough 15y agoWell, that's just another app. I haven't actually tried, but I bet old crusty copies of Lotus 1-2-3 in which I've actually done development, would probably run just fine under DosBox on any Intel platform. There's very little reason to cruft up the OS for everyone, for that stuff.