Re: stupid basic virtual memory question

[Tim Collier]

I came to the Mac in 2001 after being a Windows user for years.  I 
started out in DOS 5.  When Windows 3.1 came along and we started 
multi-tasking, I thought this was great.  It got better in Windows 95 
and continued to improve.  Aside from the constant problems that 
plagued Windows, multitasking worked well and I *expected* that sort of 
performance from my OS.  Finally, when I bought my first Modern Mac, a 
G4 867 tower, it came with OS X 10.1 *and* OS 9.  I started using OS X 
and noticed that it actually multitasked better than Windows.  It was 
very efficient.  On occasion, I would boot into OS 9 and try to use it. 
 To me, OS 9 was a painful experience.  Yes, it ran applications very 
fast, but try to do more than one thing at a time, as I was used to, it 
slowed down to a level that I thought unacceptable.  Therefore, I began 
to avoid using it.  Since OS X handled multitasking so well, all 
applications that I purchased were for OS X, if it had to run in 
classic or native OS 9, I didn't buy it.  Now, running 10.3.5 on a G5, 
multitasking is very efficient.  The OS is rock solid and the computer 
is FAST (1.8 gig single processor).  This is why I came to use the Mac 
and what I *expected* from Windows but never got.
I know that many of you still use OS 9 (or even previous versions of 
the Mac OS) on older Macs.  I can understand some of your concerns.  I 
did buy a G3 266 and tried to run OS X on it.  It was slow.  As 
compared to OS X on a G4 PowerPC or iMac it was nearly intolerable.  
True, running OS 9 on it was much more acceptable to run ONE 
application at a time, but that is not the way *I* work.
Anyway, I've not run OS 9 for anything serious EVER.  I've gotten rid 
of the G3 (although I had upgraded it to a G4 500).  My G4 iMac is now 
my machine that I use at work (my co-workers are envious and amazed 
that it run Windows via Virtual PC).  For home, I now have the G5 iMac 
and it runs everything very well.
My point (and I'm certain that a LOT of you will take offense):  OS 9 
was great in it's day but that day has LONG passed.  Use OS X on a 
Modern Mac--and I don't mean a G3--and you'll enjoy a world that 
Windows users only dream about.
On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Charles Martin wrote:

From: Marcin Wichary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jayleen sent me this info and I trash everything but didn't help 
much.
 I'm beginning to think OS X is just slower than 9.  :-(
But it is, isn't it...? Since Mac OS X is much more complicated and 
has
much more to do than OS 9, it will always be slower on a same machine
than 9. Or am I missing something...?

Exterminate all rational thought.
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