Disambiguation evidence for Classic Environment in Mac OS X via surface form

"Classic Environment"


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Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Classic Environment".

Predicate Object
allows running pre-OS X software without rebooting
architectureDependency PowerPC-only
basedOn Mac OS 9
bootRequirement does not require booting directly into Mac OS 9
category macOS Cocoa
surface form: Mac OS X technology
category application compatibility
contrastWith Carbon (late transitional API)
surface form: Carbon API
contrastWith Rosetta
developer Apple Inc.
discontinued yes
discontinuedOn Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
discontinuedReason transition to Intel processors and end of Mac OS 9 support
emulationType API-level compatibility layer
instanceOf Mac OS X feature
instanceOf compatibility layer
instanceOf software component
introducedIn early versions of Mac OS X
lastSupportedIn Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on PowerPC
notAvailableIn macOS
surface form: Mac OS X on Intel
notAvailableIn macOS
operatingSystem macOS
surface form: Mac OS X
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
primaryUseCase businesses and users dependent on legacy Mac OS 9 software
provides legacy software support during transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X
purpose run classic Mac OS applications under Mac OS X
requires Mac OS 9 system folder
requires PowerPC processor
requiresLicenseOf Mac OS 9
requiresRebootToMacOS9 no
runsAs separate Mac OS 9 process under Mac OS X
runsWithin Mac OS X graphical environment
status obsolete
successor none; classic apps eventually required rewriting for Mac OS X
supportedPlatform Power Macintosh series
surface form: PowerPC Macintosh
supports classic Mac OS applications
supportsClipboardIntegration yes
supportsFileSystemIntegration yes
supportsMultitaskingWith native Mac OS X applications
supportsPrintingVia Mac OS X printing system
timePeriod early 2000s transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X
unsupportedPlatform Apple Macintosh computers
surface form: Intel-based Macintosh
userInterface runs classic apps in windows on Mac OS X desktop
visibleToUserAs Classic preference pane in System Preferences