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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (30915)	8/19/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: IanBruce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

My tech teacher went to a Mac seminar and they said system 9, Gershwin will only be available on G-3 native computers. There's no such thing as "System 9" for the Mac. The next major OS releases are Mac OS 8.5 and the beta of Mac OS X (ten). OS 8 will be upgraded into 2000 (or 1900 for some of you), and the release version of OS X should be ready by Summer 1999. OS 8.5, 8.6 and Sonata will be fully compatible with G3 and non-G3 Macintosh. In OS X's case, the compatibility issues are far from being decided. Since it's written in the same high-level language to write Rhapsody, it's just as portable as Rhapsody. My guess is that PowerPC 604's And 603's -- or even older Macs upgraded with G3 processor cards -- will be supported. As for "Planned obsolescense" try: A. Running Win98 on a 486. B. Running a new PC application on a 7 year old PC C. Running a 7 year old application on a new PC Ian Bruce New York, NY