At 9:16 -0600 1/22/99, David Steffen wrote: >>Not as long as Mac OS 8.X exists! > > Is OS 8.X likely to be a supported, active, developing environment once OS > X is released? When MacOS X is released, it is likely that there will be more Macs which will not run it (but will run MacOS 8.6) than Macs which will run it. (And iMac sales could make my belief wrong by the time MacOS X actually ships (as opposed to current time guesses). That will change over time. 8.6 was not a typo. --John -- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you get rid of him for the weekend. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch