Re: Belated look at the OSXhints April Fool's front page
- From: usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:47:23 +0100
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roger Merriman <NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rather good, actually - not a prank, just nicely done. A reminder of
how much "fun" it was to work in the Mac OS, however much more useful
its Finder folder-view windows were.
http://www.macosxhints.com/images/OS9_full.png
It does try to make things seem much worse than they really were
if you ask me.
Seems pretty acurate.
Not to me, it doesn't.
seems fairly close to the mark i'd say.
Well, there you go. It was never like that for me. If it had been,
I'd've been a Windoze person. No way would I have ever put up with that
kind of crap, put it like that.
Well, I almost was heading fulltime windows back then. I didn't like it
but I could get stuff done. Then OSX came out.
[snip]
`Run only one program at a time' `Why push fate with three or four
programs running at once?'
Well, I always did.
I did as well. It used to crash a lot.
<shrug> I generally only had crashes when I failed to nurse the
machines correctly. There were patterns of behaviour that'd make it
roll over - and if I avoided 'em, I was okay.
For example, play Civ II, fail to reboot, crash follows (475, 7.6.1
mostly). <shrug> Non-ideal, but there you go.
i can crash and did easly just by running more than one program or
multble windows.
Well, I was using multiple open apps with System 6 and the Multifinder
way back when. I used multiple applications with System 7.1 and
7.6(.1). Having more than one application open at a time was never a
cause of instability that I could tell. Crashes were caused by other
stuff, so it seemed to me.
What other stuff?
Anyway, I found 7.x stable. The article is about OS9.
the old wallstreet, is happy running but it falls over fairly regularly.
[snip]
When I used MacOS 7.1-7.6.1, I didn't have regular crashes.
Me neither. I had irregular and largely predictable crashes. By system 9
they became regular and unpredictable (well, apart from the predictable
ones that were still there).
I had
occasional, intermittent crashes - usually caused by me failing to treat
the beastie with the care it needed.
I have never been one for treating a computer with care.
--
Woody
www.alienrat.com
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