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This is one area where I am particularly concerned about the developments of operating systems.
Perfectly satisfactory software which does all I need and more is rendered useless by updates to the operating system, under the cloak of increased performance and improved usability/stability.
The OS is perfectly capable of running emulation software to enable legacy and other incompatible software to run on even the newest systems but the developers of the OS's intentionally withdraw that emulation software, which forces users to upgrade what is otherwise perfectly adequately usable software from running.
Rosetta was withdrawn at Lion I think, which made a lot of my perfectly OK software redundant.
The developers provide for other operating systems but prevent the installation of older systems on newer hardware.
Rant/
I agree that that can be frustrating, Robert but that is one of the characteristics of apple that I actually like. You can only support legacy apps for a certain amount of time without compromising the current OS...that's the Windows conundrum - support EVERYTHING and you have a real pot lucky soup on your hands.
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