Can I run OS9 on my iMac G5?

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Can I run OS9 on my iMac G5?

I still hanker after all the benefits of OS9 with which I was very happy for so many years. Can I run it on my new machine? Tiger is very pretty in many ways but I don't find it always very intuitive and Word doesn't work as well as it did before.
Any instructions should be couched as if talking to an idiot!

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.4), Tiger

Posted on Jan 16, 2006 5:33 AM

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AxL

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Jan 16, 2006 6:05 AM in response to Garland

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Hi Garland,

It is about the programs you use.
If you use old Classic programs, it opens Classic automatically.
Then you are in the Classic environment, everything looks and works like in Mac OS 9.
As long as you use only Classic applications, you'll remain in this environment.
Mac OS X is the one who is actually at work in the background, but if you don't use Mac OS X applications you don't see it.

You cannot boot from Mac OS 9, but you can have Classic "start when you login" (System Preferences).

If your Classic is not installed:
Install it from your computer's install DVD or CD.
Open Help (⌘?) and type "classic support".
You can type also "classic", to get a lot more useful articles.

HTH
Axl

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