Re: MacOS 1.0

[gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)]

Alright, this is wasting bandwidth, but the errors need correcting:

In article <371E60A9.4F0E03FD@ix.netcom.com>,
Nick <spam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>I have no idea where you would have obtained MacOS 1.0, as such a product
>never existed.

Yes it did and it does - it shipped with the original Mac 128K and is still
available for download from a number of places as a 400K MFS diskcopy
image.

>But hopefully in answer to your question, chances are the only software which
>will load on an iMac is the software it shipped with and any subsequent
>updates.

True

>Absolutely nothing earlier.  That is how most macs have been, since
>they usually rewrite the software to fit the hardware.

But: get a copy of vMac, a compact Mac emulator for PowerMac, written by a
team including Richard Bannister who just happens to be a friend of mine
(emulate a Mac on a Mac? Yes - believe it or not, vMac will even run
itself...) then you can run any old software you want on the latest Mac
hardware.

Vincent Q