on 2/3/04 3:37 PM, David Elmo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, it is an excellent question by Powermac. But, Mikie, of course you > concur! You can play with X on a well suitable machine. The reason for most > legacy Mac users is probably to see what X is like, for a bit of a look, a > taste, the satisfaction of actually getting it to run, sort of, and so on. > Some folk claim they are stable and they can actually do work on this > platform on older machines. OK. But for the rest, it's like running an old > car and putting in a few mod cons ... > > I have resisted the temptation so far. When folk used to go to OS 7 on Mac > SE30s I stuck to OS 6 because it ran quicker, no question. The majority of > people do want more modern systems without real evidence (anecdotes are not > really sufficient). More a subject for social psychiatry ... > > > Wonder what X would be like on my 7600 (G4 360MHz, tons of everything else) > ...? :) > > David Elmo Hi......David, you've made several good points and I'm somewhat of a hypocrite. I "force-feed" older Macs and Clones with OS 9.2.2 (via OS9 Helper) all the time. I have a 6100/G3-250-w/136mb RAM running quite reliably w/ 9.2.2. My bugaboo is ANY pre-mutation of OS X BEFORE 10.3!!! I personally think they all sucked!! I'm sure I'll catch MAJOR flack for saying it....but *Pre-Panther* OS X was a basically worthless pile of Garbage!! And don't get me started about Safari!!! So.....in summation, what I was saying was: pre-Panther OS X was'nt all that great on Macs that were designed to use it.....and using a "hack" to run it on older Macs is asking for bugs and glitches as far as the eye can see! Rant Over! Mikie
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