Maintaining Your Mac

With the release of Mac OS-X, Macintosh users have access to a much more stable and responsive operating system. This new operating system has an underlying UNIX core with excellent memory protection, advanced memory management, and preemptive multitasking capabilities.

In contrast, neither Mac OS-9 or its “Classic” environment (under Mac OS-X) offer memory protection to applications; therefore, having a heightened knowledge of RAM allocation for Mac OS-9 applications is very important for making the best of this unprotected environment. In addition, Mac OS-9 applications running in the Classic environment under Mac OS-X will run more slowly than if running directly under Mac OS-9. The performance of Mac OS-9 must be optimized if decent performance is to be expected while running a Mac OS-9 applications under “Classic” within Mac OS-X.

Transitioning from Mac OS-9 to Mac OS-X (PowerPoint 8 MB)

 

Macintosh Software Supported by ITS and MSU (Real Media 106 MB)