A while ago a question was posed if anyone was still on OS9 or older. I posted a response to say that I knew plenty of places that were.
That was me. I was looking for interviewees; the article I wrote as a result is here:
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/23/os9.html>
To my dismay the process seems to be quite a headache. Networking to OS9 machines is a major problem. Some of the existing OS9 G4 machines and the several beige boxes that do basic but necessary operations cannot be seen by the X machines. Fonts available in one program are not available in another.
Echoes many of the things said by the people I interviewed. Many just felt their OS9-based setup was simply too reliable and useful to put at risk by undergoing the upgrade.
Setting up is a pain, jobs don't print, and to my astonishment, despite all I have read and heard, X does crash. I have witnessed it with my own eyes.
This was the thing that surprised me most in writing this article; finding people who considered OS X unstable. I think it's the most solid OS I've ever used, and the guy I quoted who said he experienced crashes all the time got a bit of a roasting in the comments from other readers. Perhaps, every now and then, there's a lemon of a machine that's going to keep crashing whatever happens. In those instances, it's only natural that people are going to assume the OS is the cause of the problem.
- Giles http://gorjuss.com
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