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Brian Eno and Karl Hyde: Daddy's Car

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/01/2014 4:51:34 pm PDT

re: #39 klys

Can you install the newest OS on it? Upgrade your software to the current versions?

Yes, not going to do it though, since 10.6.8 is the last version of OSX that will support some of the old programs (no longer available) that I use.

This is not Apple’s fault. I want to use old software. I can upgrade to the latest OSX or not, it’s my choice.

In fact, if I really wanted to (and I don’t), I can still find ways to run years old Apple software.

Apple provided a way for old Apple OS programs to run under OSX when the big change came.

Then, in an even more impressive move, when Apple moved to i86 platforms from their own PPC processors, they provided a way to run old software on the new machines, quite a feat of interoperability that no other vendor of small machines I can recall ever has done.

I’m not an Apple fan boy, but I do think they have gone out of their way to be a premier systems integrator, and that includes helping people transition.