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Can you install thid 25 year old program? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

MacOS: "The world came into existence fully formed ten years ago so it would be silly to even try running software older than that."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

god forbid you ever want to run any 32 bit programs. you can’t even play the orange box games anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

10 years ago is giving Apple too much credit. They were using Intel processors then, ARM now. For now, you can still run Intel applications, but that won’t last much longer.

More importantly, a 10 year old application is likely to use Carbon instead of Cocoa. Unless it’s an extremely simple application (i.e. hello world), it is unlikely to run.

Then there’s the depreciation of resource forks, a new filesystem, tons and tons of extra security restrictions, etc.