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[Jubadub]

Hi guys, I hope y'all are doing well.

In preparation for some fascinating discoveries I have made recently regarding the Mac mini G4, which I plan to share within a week's time, I was doing some research regarding the origin of the famous Mac OS ROM version 10.2.1 with CPU Software 5.9 (as opposed to 5.8), and, for the life of me, I can't find it.

All I know is that the famous, ultra-helpful, Mac OS 9 Lives! Mac OS 9.2.2 "Universal" CD for all officially-supported PowerMacs contains it, and that both @DieHard and @MacTron found the latest components and put together this super helpful disc.

It is also famously dated "3 April 2003" for both the "Created" and "Modified" dates, which is around the time Apple was trying to completely discontinue the actual Mac OS.

Thing is, does anyone know what CD, or what updater, or installer, or disk image, or whatever, this particular Mac OS ROM file and version came from?

All I can find is mentions of it from as far back as April 2014 posts here on Mac OS 9 Lives!, but I don't see any open discussion about its exact origin.

I don't know if @DieHard and/or @MacTron will see this, but does anyone at all know where exactly it came from? Was it from some MDD-related disc? It couldn't have been from the "OS9General.dmg" file, could it?