>I don't know if 'rigged' and 'dirty' are good adjectives in this >case. Apple was clear about what hardware they were going to support >with OS X. It so happens that as aprt of the OS X development >process, suppport for 604 processors was not removed from early >versions of OS X.
I should have been more clear. I can understand this if something they changed broke 604 support. I cannot understand it if everything was running fine, but they deliberately crippled 604 support. >With 10.2, if I was an Apple developer, I would view code for >unsupported hardware as old, stale cruft, and remove it to gain speed. Here you're assuming additional code had to be added to get the 604 supported. I'm assuming there was not, but that additional code had to be added to break the 604 support. Depends on your point of view, and is related to the point above. >Upgrade cards for beige PowerMacs are not that expensive, and almost >a requirement to be productive with OS X in my opinion. This is BS. I bought my G3/300 because, at that time, Apple was saying it was going to be great for running their "next generation" OS. (Yes, there were actually Apple reps at my school that responded that way when I said I'd just received my beige G3.) I wanted an OS that would do what OS 8/9 did, but with a better design (pre-emptive multi-tasking, etc) to be more efficient. The $129 I spend on OS X _should_be_ the upgrade. Anything that's slowing my computer down, compared to OS 8/9, is the "cruft" that ought to be removed to gain speed. I scrimped and saved to double my RAM when I bought it, and thought that should be sufficient. The finished product is such a RAM hog that I've had to scrimp and save to double it _again_. No, upgrade cards are indeed expensive for some of us. I'm glad Apple is finally delivering on their promise with 10.2. Too bad it's only about 4 years later than I thought it would be. -- Tim Larson <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< Info. Services - Internal Medicine Clinical Systems, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. - C.S. Lewis -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> 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/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
