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...
- Eric.
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