Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

>     On 7/9/00 at 5:16 PM, Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM thoughtfully wrote:
>>     That having been said, can anybody explain to me why I might want
>> to spend $90 to upgrade from Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x, rather than just
>> skipping it and going straight for Mac OS-X, the benefits of which
>> are obvious ?
> 
> I think you'll need MacOS 9.x to run the Classic environment under
> Mac OS X. At least you do now and I doubt that will change.

That is true.  I too expect it to stay that way.  But the bright side
of this is that you can pick up Mac OS 9 for cheaper than that...

Aaron
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