1 The idea was that releases would continue until 2000 – and that the deal was that Rhapsody (later named Mac OS X) would not support 68k.Īs people migrated away from Mac OS to Rhapsody, the customer base would take care of the need for higher Mac OS versions.
Two years ago Steve Jobs stated that the old Mac OS 8.x line would support 68k machines through the year 2000, providing updates ad infinitum as long as Apple chose to support an OS with an 8.x number. I disagree that Apple should dump the 68k code simply because they want to isolate the 68040 machines from modern use. 1998 – Okay, kind of a flame, but really specialized.
