5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
2:38 p.m.
<flamebait>
I also have this perverse fascination with Macintosh hardware. I
don't like it. I keep wanting to like it, and accumulating more of it.
MacOS 9.1 is the second poorest excuse for an OS I've ever seen.
Classic MacOS is okay (as compared to OS X, which is very beautiful). One
advantage of being a marginalised platform is that while we get less software
in general, that also means we get less *crap* software. So, even though
classic MacOS is cooperatively multitasking and has a perfectly potty memory
allocation and management scheme, it tends to crash less than Windows simply
because we're not shoveling (as much) badly written software in it.
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.
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).
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