gabriel rosenkoetter [01.44 -0400, 2002-06-06]:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:30:46PM -0700, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>> Right.  Most people I've met in 9-land tend to draw very little
>> distinction between the two, at least where drivers are concerned, since
>> most drivers tend to be partially in ROM, and partially in software
>> patches to the ROM.  The line kind of gets blurred.
> 
> If by "9-land", you mean Mac OS 9, I think the line's even *more*
> blurred there, being as much of the Mac "ROM" was moved wholesale (I
> understood, as opposed to as patches--am I mistaken?) into software
> living in the System Folder in iMacs and beyond, no?
> 
> Will Mac OS 9 even run on any 68k? (I thought not... I certainly
> wouldn't *want* to run anything beyond about 7.6, but I haven't
> tried.)

No; 8.1 was the last MacOS to run on 68k Macs.


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