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0 pointskevincox5y ago0 comments

I suspect this as well. But it seems so obvious that it is necessary for a while that I doubt that anyone takes it seriously.

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geerlingguy5y ago· 2 in thread

I believe the Mac OS Classic environment wasn't installed by default in the early OS X days.

sjwright5y ago

This is both correct and incorrect.

This is correct if you refer to how early versions of the Mac OS X installer was packaged. The Classic environment framework was always installed but a copy of Mac OS 9 was also required to be installed on the system volume as well—and this wasn't included when installing a fresh copy of Mac OS X from a CD.

There was a limited period of time when Apple shipped and installed both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on Macs—so for those people, the Classic environment was "effectively" installed by default. Though to reproduce this you'd need to run the Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 installers from their respective CDs.

SahAssar5y ago

Mac OS Classic (running OS 9 apps on OS X) is more like a VM than a translation layer. The better comparison for rosetta 2 is rosetta 1.

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