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Followup on Canada and OS 9 Booting

The previous Canada story has been updated to reflect many people's observation that the employment listing does not necessarily reflect the coming of Apple Stores in Canada.

As well, one reader forwarded an email sent to Education Partners providing some confirmation of support for OS 9 into 2003:


    To accommodate the last 25% who still wish to buy their Macs with OS9 installed as the default OS, during this process, Apple will continue to offer our Education customers some configurations of the current eMac, iBook, and CRT iMac product lines that will boot into Mac OS 9 until June 2003.

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