“Classic” Knowledge
Posted May 22nd, 2003 @ 09:21pm by Erik J. Barzeski
As I do some reading today, two things strike me as amazing:
- How much I knew about Mac OS 7/8/9 at one point in time.
- How much of that knowledge has been shoved out the window by Mac OS X knowledge.
I haven't had "Classic" installed on my computers since shortly after Mac OS X 10.0 shipped. I've used Mac OS X as my "boot" operating system since Public Beta. It's just over two years old, yet my memories of Mac OS 9 feel soooooo dusty.
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Posted 22 May 2003 at 10:09pm #
Classic? Oh yeah, that.
So I actually fired up Classic.app today, for the first time in a very long time. Why? Well, I was playing around with Bernie ][ the Rescue, the very cool Apple IIgs emulator for the Classic Mac OS. I...
Posted 23 May 2003 at 10:24am #
Wow, really strange that you write this and today, I'm forced to install and use OS 9 to resurrect an OS X Server machine.
We'll see how much of that knowledge is retained.
Posted 23 May 2003 at 1:12pm #
It just seems that so much OS 9 knowledge is irrelevant now. There are no extensions anymore, no chooser, no fixed program memory sizes, etc. Instead you get multiple users, permissions, all of Unix, and a bunch of other fun things, as well as fewer crashes. I honestly can't remember the last time a program crashed on my computer that wasnt made by Microsoft. Aside from that day I tried to delete 8,000 pictures from probably 5,000 different folders, it didn't like that.
Posted 23 May 2003 at 9:23pm #
actually, the only crashes i have in OS9 are from microsoft apps. namely, IE and word.