Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.96/text4077.txt

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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 23:21:42 -0500
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>How could I run apps Mac Apps made for System 7.5 ???? HEEEEEEELP

As far as I know, apps made for system 7.5 are system 7.5 "savvy".  Meaning
that they take advantage of changes, but are not incompatable with earlier
systems.  Apple did not pull a "microsoft" and modify the system in such a
way as to make earlier software useless.

Apple has made a reputation as a company that works to ensure that there OS
interoperates politely with both old and new software.  There are a few
unfortunate cases were companies or individuals have bypassed the tollbox,
and ended up making software that lasted only a year.  But on the other end
of the spectrum we have products that are almost ten years old that still
run on a modern mac, with the new OS.

We also have Executor.  An OS emulator, running on a synthetic CPU that can
run the Mac OS based software in DOS on a 486 ( or a pentium, or in Linux,
or on a Next box).  That this is at all possible is a tribute to Apple's
toolbox concept, and the programmers over the years who have stuck to the
rules.  We know who they are, there software is the stuff that still runs.


Cheerios,
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