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Originally Posted by MYMD
My roommate has a MAC , and well Uh I have software he could use for Uh Eh free But none of it runs on OS X, it seems all of the mac stuff is OS 9 and even though the pro Mac people say how unmicrosoft they are, Uh OS X is not compatable with 9 and before so everyhting must be new! Huh seems that Windows still run about everything back to 95 and even 3.1!!!!! Heck I ran a 15 year old program this past year. I thought Mac was people friendly????
Seems like they are trying to make more profit friendly???? HAHAHAHA
Still Windows rules, BTW he wants to toss the Mac into the Caribbean ocean now (after spending 2k on it and I spent 1200 on mine and it runs better!) 
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OS X can run OS9 stuff. Its called Mac Classic in the OS X. It loads up a copy of OS 9 on top of the OS X and it is through there that you can run everything just as before.
From Wikipedia:
"
PowerPC versions of Mac OS X retain compatibility with older
Mac OS applications by providing an emulation environment called
Classic, which allows users to run
Mac OS 9 as a process within Mac OS X, so that most older applications run as they would under the older operating system. In addition, the
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