9.2 boots faster on my G4/400 than Panther does....
That's about it.
Programs open faster in Panther and the whole OS is faster. File copies over the network, from disk to disk, and from CD to disk are all way faster. Plus I can browse the web and answer email while the copies continue on without ANY slowdown. Do a large (700+ MB) file copy in OS9 then switch to another app and see how much longer it takes OS9 to do the deed.
The reason why OS9 seems faster is because of the cooperative multitasking forces the app in front to get more CPU time. Thus the user interface seems more 'snappy'. In actuality, OSX is a faster OS.
Case in point. Pre-Panther era OSX vs. WinXP:
WinXP had a faster GUI and was a more 'responsive' system. However, if you were to do multiple tasks or even a single task, such as a large file copy, OSX would stomp it with extreme force. Clicking a menu would make OSX seem sloshy though. Panther mostly fixed this on slower machines (hell, it ran wonderfully on my Umax S900 with a G3/300 upgrade).
If you are running Panther and it's going slow, you don't have enough RAM. Simple as that.
-Rob
On Oct 14, 2004, at 9:50 AM, John C. Swanson wrote:
I really don't know why people complain that 10.3 is slow. I use 10.3 on my Pismo (G3 400 MHz, 160 MB RAM) and I have never thought it to be slow, and never thought that 9.2 was any faster.
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