[off topic] Re: [MacPerl] Distributing reduced MacPerl packagewith Droplet ?

[Alex Satrapa <packrat@blitzen.canberra.edu.au>]

At 09:52 +1100 on 4/2/98, Nat Irons wrote:
>>>From what I have heard, one of the releases of the MacOS
>>will soon not support 68k programs since the 68k systems
>>are now somewhere around five to six years old.
>
>Who cares?  I can find people still using 7.1 happily.  Even if 8.1 were
>the last OS revision to run on 68K machines (and it won't be) those older
>systems are going to be in circulation for a long long time.

8.1 won't run on 68030, you need at least a 68040 to run MacOS 8.

I have two Macs - a PowerBook 180 and an LC III. These are both (drum
roll)... 68030 machines. And they both have less than 16Mb RAM.

So the question is mostly right...the new MacOS no longer supports old 68k
machines.

-Alex

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to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
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