6 Nov
2012
6 Nov
'12
2:09 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
I think 7.6 is the absolute best OS to run on a
PowerPC. I haven't
run it on an '040 any time recently, though I imagine it would be
acceptable, but I see very few downsides vs. running 7.5.x on a 68K
machine.
In the mid-1990, I ran a bunch of Macs at work. Our low-end was
the IIci, our high end was a Quadra 950 and one PowerMac 8100av.
All had Ethernet adapters and connected to external resources via
TCP/IP (we used Apple protocols for locally sharing files and hitting
printers). ISTR running 7.5.1 on the IIci boxes. I don't recall what
was on the PowerMac (it was purchased some time in 1994 and
probably not upgraded after that, if that helps).
For what it's worth, I feel like the Mac OS peaked
at 7.6, and it's
all been (non-monotonically) downhill from there. I feel like there
was another local maximum at 10.4 (and another somewhat lower one
at 10.6), but it's kind of apples vs. oranges at that point.
Interesting observation. I stopped working with Macs during the 8.x
and 9.x eras and only picked them up again around 10.2 or so. I've
noodled around for a small number of hours on 9.something and I
have a *lot* of time on 10.3 and 10.4.
What was so bad about 8.x or 9.x?
-ethan