On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Byard Pidgeon wrote: > I did try using it, and will again because it won't be long until > there's no > choice...but...look at the defenses made for Apple's support and > updates...isn't all that stuff supposed to be in an OS when it hits the > market, rather than over a 2 year period? > It was in the previous OS...so it seems right to me that one doesn't > release, for a hefty fee, a "new" OS that doesn't have the > functionality of > what it's replacing. > Maybe I'm just old-fashioned? >
To be honest you are making an old argument. Apple was very stupid to make the decision to call their next generation OS Mac OS "Ten" in my mind. The fact is that is that Mac OS "X" was released as Public Beta and then as 1.0, but marketing is great and people stay away from 1.0s so they named it 10.0 since 10 follows 9. Well it didn't help much and it wasn't true anyways. Basically nothing from Classic Mac OS 7-9.x was included in X codewise and the old defense is that Classic Mac OS is 17 years old. While this sounds cheap its actually a pretty good argument when taken on fair ground. Mac OS X v.1.0 [we will call it] was not all that different from Mac OS 1.0 in terms of things that should have been there. And here criticism is most fair, because Apple has done this once and should have some foresight now. But 1.1 and 1.2 [where we are today with 10.2.2] sit very well in comparison to earlier versions of the Classic Mac OS. 10.1 is at least System 7 in most respects and 10.2 is very much an 8.6. I personally never liked 9.x much, it seemed like it was more of a tack stuff on rather than an addition of really new good stuff. 8.6 has almost everything 9 does under the hood and the feature parity is even close. When you compare 1.0 to 7.0 and 10.0 to 10.1 in terms of their relationships to each other there is a lot of parity. Many people seem to blow off that Mac OS X is a completely fresh start, they brought ideas and experience but not the work they had done in the past. David -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
