on 10/2/01 10:33 AM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_home.com wrote:
> at the temporal coordinates: 10/2/01 10:25 AM, the entity known as Laurent
> Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:
>
>>
>> on 10/2/01 12:37 AM, David Orriss Jr at dave_at_davenet.net wrote:
>>
>>> At 11:58 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>>> 9 run within X, so that you can use almost any existing application. If an
>>>> application works fine on 9, then it should be OK on X. I'm talking about
>>>> applications, not about extensions or control panels, which are completely
>>>> different beasts...
>>>
>>> Well, then I don't see the problem. This is roughly analogous to my
>>> needing to run some of my DOS apps that don't work in Win2k. So, I have
>>> VMWare, where I can run a true DOS 6.22 OS install within Win2k (or Linux
>>> for that matter). OK, so you *can't* run NTK in *native* OS X, but you
>>> can still at least run it, right?
>>
>> As of OS X 10.1, NTK doesn't launch anymore. You double-click it and it
>> starts to load, but then it displays an alert saying that an unknown error
>> has occurred and that it can't run.
>>
>> Bear in mind that for all access to the machine hardware, OS 9 within OS X
>> (or Classic) has to rely on the good dispositions of OS X. That's why that
>> even though you have a Macintosh with a serial port, you won't be able to
>> use it in Classic, with the same application that works just fine when you
>> boot in OS 9. That's because Apple didn't implement a serial connection into
>> the system, so Classic can't access it either.
>>
>> -Laurent.
>
> I guess the real question then (if I haven't missed it), is whether NTK
> still works if you boot into OS 9.2.1...
I don't know for 9.2.1, but it still works fine in 9.1.
-Laurent.
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