25.10.2007 23:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops It's not a huge surprise, but Apple's gone ahead and posted a note confirming that Leopard will not support Classic, even on PowerPC machines. Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic anyway, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress 4 and will be affected by this, but it marks the end of the road for the venerable OS, which ushered in the mainstream GUI era with the 128K Mac in 1984 and remained the default boot OS on all new Macs until OS X 10.1.2 was released 18 years later in 2002 -- prompting Steve to s

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