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 )
Its amazing how fast 8.1 is on a 33MHz 68040 .... really demonstrates what legacy code and the transition to PowerPC entailed ...
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.
Gotta tell you I run Mac OS 9.1 on an 8600/300 and on a 7600/200 and its snappy on both, the 7600 also has half the RAM [8600 - maybe 224MB or a little more, 7600 - 112MB].
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.
Neither of mine takes near four minutes to boot, you must have some crazy stuff installed beyond the default OS install.
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.
Useable true, but by the 1990s we were using 16MHz, 25MHz [Mac IIci], and 33MHz [Quadra 800] Macs and by 1994-95 were running 66-100MHz PowerPC based Macs.
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.
True. And the load was lighter, that is really the only difference. If I put the original system software on any given Mac, it runs lightning fast. I owned a PowerBook 1400 for a long time, with its standard 603e 166MHz processor and 64MB of RAM 9.1 was useable but not nearly as snappy as some of my desktops. Put a version of System 7.5 or 7.6 on it and its just flew ... New things do take new resources.
David
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