Re:Amiga Forever
by rbanffy on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:52PM
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> even parts of the OS were still running 68k emulated.
Up until MacOS 8.5 you could move some system extensions to 68K Macs and they'd work.
I had my Color Classic have MacOS 8 looks (even running on 7.5) that way.
Apple couldn't stay on the 68K though - Motorola was mothballing the 68K line and investing on their own 88000 and, being faced with an OS rewrite, Apple did the rational thing - find out who has the best chance of making something better.
> Apple was lost in the wilderness for most of the mid-90s and a big part of it was just having too many balls in the air.
I remember that, when MacOS 9x seemed like a dead end, Apple published MkLinux. It was my first Linux desktop.
Up until MacOS 8.5 you could move some system extensions to 68K Macs and they'd work.
I had my Color Classic have MacOS 8 looks (even running on 7.5) that way.
Apple couldn't stay on the 68K though - Motorola was mothballing the 68K line and investing on their own 88000 and, being faced with an OS rewrite, Apple did the rational thing - find out who has the best chance of making something better.
> Apple was lost in the wilderness for most of the mid-90s and a big part of it was just having too many balls in the air.
I remember that, when MacOS 9x seemed like a dead end, Apple published MkLinux. It was my first Linux desktop.