OS X - 20 years today

[RgrF]

Snow Leopard was the 8.6 of OSX.

[sekker]

space-time wrote:
10.6.8 was the best

I recently booted a 12 year old Mac using an external spinny disk drive with SL via USB2, and wow - it worked! It was quite snappy actually, and on a machine with only 5GB RAM. No spinning beach balls, still connected to the WWW, and opened apps just fine without an SSD.

W T H, Apple? How did we go from the slickness of SL to the absurdity that was Lion in only a couple years? And, in one of those 'do not try at home' warnings, do NOT try to boot a more modern OS off a spinny drive, even via USB3 - unless you want to play 'whack-a-mole' and SLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWLLLLLY open files or programs.

[Will Collier]

I remember the hullabaloo when System 7 came out.

Crap, I'm old.

[Will Collier]

rz wrote:
[quote=space-time]
10.6.8 was the best

Agreed. Still use it in a VM.

I actually found 10.1 to be quite usable. Once I made the leap, I didn't look back.
Oh yeah. Still running it on multiple dedicated systems that don't need up to date applications (a media server, arcade cabinets, etc.) to this day. Solid as a rock.

[Lew Zealand]

OS 10.1.3 was the first I used as by then all the apps I needed were available natively (basically just web browsers and Office), and we started getting tech support calls for OS X. So I damn well needed to figure out how it worked and how to fix it.

The stability improvement over OS 9 was immediately apparent and once I upgraded by G4/450 to a DP G4/450, the OS was smooth as butter.


And then came the days of squeezing blood from a stone:

OS 10.4.9 (.11 was never dependable on this) on a PM 7500 G4/1GHz, 1GB RAM, 300GB IDE, PCI 128MB Radeon 9200, USB2, FW400, 100bT

[jonny]

Memories... http://virtualdesktop.org/complete/osx4/index.html#