From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:12:48 -0400,
sytech@yahoo.com wrote
(in article <
1145016768.152207.69470@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
If as you say my Samsung Printer won't work in OSX I could always but a
new printer. This one works ok but is old .
Contact Samsung and see if they have OS X drivers. I made a quick run past their website and didn't see anything, but they _do_ have Linux PPC drivers, which suggests they may have OS X drivers somewhere. Or maybe the Linux drivers can be made to work.
Does that mean I would
have to use this printer while in OS 9.1 and the new printer when in
OSX?
If there are no OS X drivers for it, then yes you'd have to boot OS 9 to use the Samsung.
Or would a new printer be "backward compatible"?
Most new printers should work in OS X and Classic. As of Tiger, Apple pulled
a trick with printing in Classic: all printers which are available in OS X, including the fax system, show up in Classic as if they were LaserWriter 8 printers. LW8 prints, hands off to the OS X drivers, and you get output , including colour output, from your printer. It's a little slower than
printing directly as it goes past two drivers, but it works. The printer just has to have OS X drivers.
If I have 2 distinct Operating systems each operating on a different
drive (as opposed to using "Classic Mode" which has some shortcomings
as I can tell)
Classic doesn't like apps which require direct access to the hardware. This includes but is not limited to certain games, many utilities, and items such as OS 9 fax software. Almost all other apps work fine in Classic. The list of known working software includes Quark 3.x, 4, & 5; MS Word 5.x, 6, 98, 2001; MS Excel 4, 98, 2001; Photoshop 4, 5, 6; Illustrator 9; most versions of Apple/ClarisWorks. Known not working apps include all disk utilities, all
anti virus utilities, and all fax utilities.
then won't I have to re-boot to go from one to the
other?
Yes. Classic runs as an operating environment under OS X. It is _not_ OS 9, directly, it just uses OS 9's systems. OS 9 is a different OS, and you'd have to reboot to run it.
I'd update to 9.2.2 unless there was a good reason why not.
For example, because my Internet access is really becoming limited in
OS 9.1 I would want to use OSX for the Internet. Then suppose I find
an article that I want to save as a MS-WORKS 3.0 word processing
file. How would I go about doing that?
If Works runs in Classic, I'd launch Classic (if it's not already running)
and then launch Works and cut and paste. Safari and Firefox both allow saving pages directly as Web archives and as HTML; Firefox will save as plain text
as well. Typically Web archives can be opened only by a limited set of apps, but anything which can open text (Word, SimpleText, TextEdit, whatever) can open HTML and plain text files.
I really appreciate your feedback.
You have 576MB...that's at the low limit for Tiger. Panther would give a bit more breathing space, or you might want to add some RAM. Panther doesn't do the LW8 print trick with Classic, and sometimes printing from Classic got messy, especially with HP inkjet printers. Anyone who does a lot of printing from Classic really should be doing two things:
1 run Tiger
2 look hard for OS X-native versions of the software they use, or a least something OS X-native which can use their data.
Note that the new Intel Macs don't run Classic and probably never will. If
you buy a new machine, Classic is out.
Sy
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