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Posted by: beachycove on 2008-05-20 07:47:36
Does Classic under OSX benefit (indirectly) from the Unix foundation it runs on: Is it, in other words, in any sense multithreaded, or does it run in a single unix "thread," is there protected memory, and does it have any advantge viz. preemptive multi-tasking etc.? Or is Classic simply what MacOS always was, effectively self-contained within some wider unix process?
System 7 under A/UX was single-threaded, did not offer protected memory, and offered only the standard, limited MacOS multitasking capability of plain-Jane System 7, so is MacOS9 running under OSX effectively the same?
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Posted by: ealex79 on 2008-05-20 08:21:29
It just virtualized like an OS in Parallels or VMWare. So... the whole Mac OS Classic incl. it's applications run as one UNIX process if I am right. :-x
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-05-20 08:29:04
I wish they had Classic Support for Leopard PPC users and BootCamp for the Intel beasts.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-05-20 09:08:51
Does Classic under OSX benefit (indirectly) from the Unix / System 7 under A/UX / is MacOS9 running under OSX effectively the same? No, and yes.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2008-05-20 09:58:01
I wish they had Classic Support for Leopard PPC users and BootCamp for the Intel beasts. It is a pity but modern Apple wouldn't entertain that. They have already
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Posted by: johnsonfromwisconsin on 2008-07-10 18:52:06
Does Classic under OSX benefit (indirectly) from the Unix / System 7 under A/UX / is MacOS9 running under OSX effectively the same? No, and yes.
Agreed.
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