12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
7:29 a.m.
2009/6/12 Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>:
Well, true. If it were just for a decent web browser, I could and at
least occasionally would still run MacOS 9. There are bits of its GUI
that OS X still can't even come close to, from the gorgeous classic
Finder to pop-up folders and whatnot.
But iCab doesn't cut it & WaMCom and Netscape 6 are too old.
Given a port of Firefox and a multi-protocol instant messenger, I'd
still be quite content in 9.2.2. But I don't think it'll ever happen
now. :?(
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In summary,
no, I entirely disagree. Apple jumped at just about the
right time, and could not have done it much earlier. Before the Core
processors, the performance advantage just wasn't there, and before
2006 or so, too many people were still running Classic applications,
which wouldn't work on OS X/86.
Some of us still run them. The software works fine and a few things have
no good (or cheap) OS X equivalent. I'm actually stocking up on old PPC
hardware.
The problem is, of course, portables. Right now I'm still using my PowerPC
lappies but they are getting long in the tooth. Fortunately, running
Classic software on them is rarely critical, but if I'm made to start over
with an x86 laptop I might be looking at something else.
ObCC: Mac OS 9 4EVER!!! (almost on topic)