OS Eleven not compatible with current hardware?
So I was just talking to the IT guy at work. He's the only one we have that's both nice and has a brain.
ANYWAY, I was telling him that I got a new laptop last week (it's a 12" G4) because he and I have a running joke that I'm always asking him for a Macintosh on my desk, but our organization runs exclusively on Windoze. (Whenever I call him for help, he asks what the trouble is, and I say "Well, this machine isn't a Mac, so I'm having such and such problem.")
So... he tells me how Mac is about to come out with OS 11 and that all of the existing computers won't be compatible.
I thought he was pulling my leg, but he seems serious.
I'm not worried, because I can't see how this story of his could be true. It just doesn't make any sense.
What do you all think?
ANYWAY, I was telling him that I got a new laptop last week (it's a 12" G4) because he and I have a running joke that I'm always asking him for a Macintosh on my desk, but our organization runs exclusively on Windoze. (Whenever I call him for help, he asks what the trouble is, and I say "Well, this machine isn't a Mac, so I'm having such and such problem.")
So... he tells me how Mac is about to come out with OS 11 and that all of the existing computers won't be compatible.
I thought he was pulling my leg, but he seems serious.
I'm not worried, because I can't see how this story of his could be true. It just doesn't make any sense.
What do you all think?
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68040 based Macs - last one discontinued in 1996 (PowerBook 190cs), OS compatability stopped in 1998 (8.5)
68030 based Macs - last one discontinued in 1996 (Performa 550), OS compatability stopped in 1997 (7.6)
68000 based Macs - last one discontinued in 1992 (Classic and PowerBook 100), OS compatability stopped in 1997 (7.6)
I think they'll discontinue the G3 at least a year before they discontinue support for it. Apple's never released an OS that is incompatabile with current hardware. And the Performa 550... well, that was a sad excuse for a computer in April of 1995, but it did run System 7 just like everything else at the time.
EDIT: Okay, one time Apple did release an OS that was incompatible with all current hardware - system 7.1.2, the version of system 7.1 that was rushed out the door when the first PowerPCs came out. But subsequent versions of 7.5.x were fully compatible with both 68k and PPC Macs.
Originally posted by SuperGrover
So... he tells me how Mac is about to come out with OS 11 and that all of the existing computers won't be compatible.
Ridiculous. Just like the people who walked into Apple Stores asking for the new 970 iPods, absolutely certain they had been introduced.
There's no OS 11 (yet).
Your IP guy must have slipped into C-18 for a moment -- it's not always easy to get there.
He's also correct that OS 11 won't be compatible with current machines, as it will require brain-plugs and run on an unnamed frequency in the violet spectrum.
Originally posted by mrmister
By the time we hit 11 under the new numbering scheme it'll be about 6~7 years...and it is possible your laptop won't work so great then. I wouldn't sweat it.
yup! 6-7 years is it, and you probably won't even need a laptop, as we will all be wearing unisex silver jumpsuits by then...right?
I say, tommorow, you punch that guy in the face, yell at him, and then kick him when he is on the floor (if he is not on the floor yet, put him on the floor, and do the previous suggested action)
he was pulling your leg, he knows nothing, and seems to not care about your feelings.....
Again, I say, tommorow, you punch that guy in the face, yell at him, and then kick him when he is on the floor (if he is not on the floor yet, put him on the floor, and do the previous suggested action)
here's an example:
at my last job, our IT guy asked me one day what programming language was used for mac apps.
i told him mostly C++ (we were using 9 at the time)
he then got this puzzled look on his face.
he then asked how there can be so much fewer virii on macs than windows, because they both use C++ as a programming language.
i felt like kicking him.
Besides, this belongs in the Mac OS X forum. Moving now.
Originally posted by Brad
Report of OS 11 this early are bull, IMNSHO.
You think ???
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ps...when the Os finally does hit 11, apple need to get nigel from spinal tap as the spokesman....."These go to 11"
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