Re: Frustrated in installing Jaguar for testing purpose
Re: Frustrated in installing Jaguar for testing purpose
- Subject: Re: Frustrated in installing Jaguar for testing purpose
- From: "Philip D. Wasson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:21:55 -0400
On May 30, 2006, at 15:53, Chen Wang wrote: Since this a common issue in software test, I would like to know how developers here test your applications that is targeted to an older OS version? Do you always keep an old Macintosh computer for testing purpose? If so, may I know which Macintosh model (G3, G4?) would be the best for running major releases of Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2.0 ~ 10.2.8)?
It appears that the iMac G5 requires 10.3.5 or later. Macs pretty much always require the latest version of the OS available at their time of introduction. The information on each Mac model provided at < http://www.apple-history.com/> includes (in the Miscellaneous section) the minimum supported OS version. It looks like most of the G4 Macs supported at least some version of 10.2.x, though not necessarily 10.2.0, and some can handle 9.2.2 or later. I think that most developers, when supporting an old OS, prefer to only officially support the newest free update of that major version, i.e. 10.2.8 in this case, unless some special circumstance dictates otherwise.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip D. Wasson pwasson at maned dot com Software Engineer Managing Editor Inc.
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