<strong>Does anybody know if OS9 will run on a XServer?</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, the Xserve is the first (if you don't count the ANS 500 and 700) "Mac" to not run the Classic MaC OS (9.X <
I have a strong feeling it won't be the last either. I've been warning my customers for a while now that Apple will cut off direct OS 9 booting on machines real soon. Don't be surprised that the new PowerMacs won't be able to either. It seems this is the current "rumor" floating around on the net right now. For all we know it could be Apple testing the waters to see the reaction.
It doesn't make sense for them to keep adding support to new hardware to make OS 9 bootable. OS X is much more abstracted fromt he hardware than OS 9 is.
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<strong>It won't. (Sorry to be blunt.)</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least you answered my question.
<strong>And one would do this, why????</strong><hr></blockquote>
If they wanted to use it for audio, for example...
<strong>Does anybody know if OS9 will run on a XServer?</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, the Xserve is the first (if you don't count the ANS 500 and 700) "Mac" to not run the Classic MaC OS (9.X <
I have a strong feeling it won't be the last either. I've been warning my customers for a while now that Apple will cut off direct OS 9 booting on machines real soon. Don't be surprised that the new PowerMacs won't be able to either. It seems this is the current "rumor" floating around on the net right now. For all we know it could be Apple testing the waters to see the reaction.
It doesn't make sense for them to keep adding support to new hardware to make OS 9 bootable. OS X is much more abstracted fromt he hardware than OS 9 is.