On Feb 4, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Michael Day wrote:
on 2/4/04 10:47 AM, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Panther *is* faster but it's feel is largely similar, IMO. It's more like the difference between OS 8.1 and OS 8.6, or maybe 8.6 and 9.0,
OK..... OK.......I was a bit harsh in my evaluation of the last few
Under the hood there were considerable tweaks from 10.2, but you make it sound like 10.2 was a Chevette and 10.3 is a Corvette.
incarnations of 10.2. My opinion of the entire OS was formed by my
disappointment in what the first OS X promised and what it delivered. I only
"dabbled" in the Jaguar series and only focused on Panther after I got a G4
and could feel the fluidity of the system.
Like my friend who told me 'Macs just SUCK'. Upon questioning, he said his only experience was from using some 7100's in a lab with OS 7.2.1 (possibly the *worst* OS release ever), and only 8 MB of memory, trying to run X-windows applications...using, it turns out, 68K code.
OS X on a resource-strangled system is not a nice experience, unless you just love spinning pinwheels. "Tai-chi computing" is what I call it.
OS X PB and 10.0 were mostly remarkable for their very existence. Like a singing pig it was enough that they merely ran. No one did any serious work in them. You ran them once or twice, marveled and then went back to OS 9.
10.1 was better. Now you could work in it...so long as you didn't want to print, or do any of a number of things that you could do in OS 9. Maybe work half time in OS9 and OSX.
10.2 was a major leap forward. It was the first 'full time' version of OS X, imo. After installing 10.2, I don't believe I ever booted in OS 9 again. All the promise and more of OSX started appearing.
10.3 is further along. I don't remember the last time I started Classic...
Now, concomitant to these OS upgrades was the steady stream of OS X compatible applications. When 10.1 was out there were few mainstream apps that worked. Now there are few that don't.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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