5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
3:35 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
allocation and management scheme, it tends to crash
less than Windows simply
because we're not shoveling (as much) badly written software in it.
No argument there at all. But 9.1 broke all my old software, like
Stuffit... And it is sooooo slllooooowwww....
9.x is light-years improved over the old System 7
though. There are
exactly five MacOSes worth using: 6.0.8, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1 and 10.1.x and up.
(Note that Apple rarely gets it right the first time :-) All the others
stink for one reason or another.
8.1 is my favorite for actually doing stuff, with 6.0.8 as the
aesthetic winner.
If I ever get around to talking one of the Macsters here into letting
me evaluate X.1, I'd like to try it. Assuming the OldWorld hacks for
OSX still work. (We're talking about an 8500/180 in a 7200 box....)
Have you tried A/UX? Note to those who asked: I got it
working! Mail me
for details if you want the steps I took (YMMV).
Got it up & on the local network on a Quadra 650, up without ethernet
on the SE/30 (this weekend's project is a SLIP server for him.) and when
I pick up the IIci, I'll probably put MacOS back on the Quadra so I can
play with the DOS card....
I'm seeing a lot of A/UX influence behind user-space Linux.
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