Re: Belated look at the OSXhints April Fool's front page

Roger Merriman <NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

by that time, i was waiting for macosx to work.

Me too, more or less. If it hadn't been for the promise of MacOS X, I
think I'd've been thinking about how to migrate to a different platform.

`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.

always too much running here, oh the whole. which is why as i got dialup
and such it got worse as i starting running more, and at the same time.

It's just struck me that if your dyslexia takes you anything like the
way it takes my little bro, I suspect there's no way you'd've been able
to do what I did to keep the old MacOS stable. There was a lot of
spotting and remembering arbitrary patterns that needed doing.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure how the hell I managed it.

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. I had
occasional, intermittent crashes - usually caused by me failing to treat
the beastie with the care it needed.

well thats the point, macosx and to be honest windows doesn't need such
kid cloves.

Well, Windoze 3.blah in some installations was horribly unreliable for
many - and there didn't seem to be any way round it. Not that I ever
investigated myself - this is just what I heard.

In the case of my use of Sys 7.1 - MacOS 7.6.1, I found that generally
speaking, provided I avoided particular patterns of behaviour that I
could avoid without significantly affecting the way I used the machine,
everything worked nicely.

Yes, it needed a skilled operator - mostly, one who could remember to
reboot at key moments - to get reliable operation, but at least reliable
operation was available.

Rowland.

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