At 10:45 PM -0500 1/16/01, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>There has been some discussions about the benefits that 9.1 brings over
>9.0.4 and 8.6. Here is a little blurb from TidBITS (quoted without
>permission):
>
>**Mac OS 9.1 Available Online at Nearly 70 MB** -- Apple has
> quietly released Mac OS 9.1, the latest version of its shipping
> operating system. Mac OS 9.1 improves support for Multiple Users
> and iTools, and offers a number of under the hood enhancements
> including AppleScript 1.5.5, AppleShare Client 3.8.8, OpenGL 1.2,
> revised FireWire software, a new process manager (enabling faster
> task switching and better performance for some background
> applications), and a substantially revised nanokernel. Mac OS 9.1
> also improves the Finder's Get Info functionality, adds a Window
> menu to the Finder, and simplifies the top-level folder structure
> of a newly set up drive to match that of Mac OS X more closely -
> installing only System, Documents, Apple Extras, and Applications
> (where Utilities and Assistants now reside). Mac OS 9.1's system
> requirements are unchanged from Mac OS 9: an Apple original
> PowerPC-based system with at least 32 MB of RAM (64 MB of RAM or
> more recommended). Apple does not support third party PowerPC
> upgrades; although Mac OS 9.1 may work with them, you may wish to
> let more-ambitious users test the waters first. Also, Mac OS 9.1
> and the Mac OS X Public Beta are incompatible; Mac OS 9.1 breaks
> Mac OS X Public Beta's Classic environment.
>
Now someone please explain to me why this info is not on the Apple download site?
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