__ ___ ____ _____ ______ _______ ________ _________----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [PCI] Re: OT: Is Panther Faster?
On Feb 3, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Powermac wrote: >
> When OSX originally came out I tried a friends copy on my 8500 with > G3-400/448mb ram, USB card, IDE card with 40gb HD and 48x cdrom. I > found > the machine was slow.
10.0 or 10.1 are like different operating systems compared to 10.2 or 10.3.
Like the difference between Windows 3.11 and Windows 2000 different....
> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Well windows 3.11 would be many times faster then Windows 2000 on the same machine. I guess you were referring to stability?
So, as usual in this sort of discussion on the PCI list no hard conclusions are drawn.
The best OS for the PCI Mac non-G machine ? Maybe the best advice is " Try It ! ". If it works, is stable enough and does what you need it to do in an amount of time you can live with great !
When I got my first PowerMac I had to go to OS 8. It crashed a lot But was fast. even at 90 MHz. OS 8.1 was more stable , but I liked the features too. Although it still crashed a lot. At 8.5/ Stability was improved and the features were great but more memory and CPU horsepower (132 MHz )
were needed to make it as fast as before. OS 9.1 is even better but it takes every bit of the 300 MHz and a lot more memory to avoid aggravation.
Cold reboots take about four minutes there are so many extensions. But I am asking it to do a lot more. And I don't really feel like making specail sets and constantly rebooting if I want to burn disks or run a heavy App.
On the platform I came to the Mac from we laughed at the bloatware of other platforms. But that is the price of convenience and cool features.
In 1990 CPUs of 7 MHz were still considered usable.And a 1 Gig HD was considered an immense hole to fill..
Now they are laughable. But people got work done and even had fun with the computer.
The best OS in your dreams? The one that gets in the way the least.
The best OS for you ? The one you can live with !
-- Adrian
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