Paul Snively writes:
>Once MacOS X ships, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that it will take
>a minimum of a year, and more likely two, before it achieves any
>reasonable kind of market penetration. Even then there will be enclaves of
>users sticking to their MacOS 8/9 installations, and remember, there are
>millions of machines out there that won't run MacOS X in the first place.
As a data point, I still have occasion to use my Quadra 700, which runs MacOS 7.5.3. I've been meaning to upgrade it for the last year or so, but haven't gotten around to it, since, for what I use it for (mostly telnetting to a Linux box and doing a little web surfing), it's still adequate.
-dan