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Classic support was simply Mac OS 9 running in a virtual machine. Carbon is a modernization of the classic APIs. If an app was ported to Carbon then it could r
by thought_alarm 12y ago
Classic support was simply Mac OS 9 running in a virtual machine.
Carbon is a modernization of the classic APIs. If an app was ported to Carbon then it could run in OS X natively without the VM. Older apps that weren't ported to Carbon need a VM running a classic version of Mac OS.
- yuhong 12y agoIt is not a true VM, the virtualization is at the nanokernel level.