On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:21 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > I am currently running OS9.1 on a 7600 upgraded to a G3/400 with USB > and Firewire cards. > Apart from the usual internet chores (Eudora5 and IE5) and word > processing with Office98 the bulk of my work involves After Effects5, > PhotoShop5.5 and iMovie2.0.3. > I would appreciate comments on the pros and cons of installing OS 9.2.1 > TIA > > As far as I can determine, the main advantage of installing 9.2.1 is if you intend running MacOS X, since the support for Classic is better. If you're not running OS X, I'm not sure there are any real advantages. In fact, when 9.2.1 was first released there were so many reports of 3rd party extensions suddenly breaking in it that I did not bother upgrading. Even now, I have a pretty much bare-bones 9.2.1 (with a few necessary additions such as printer drivers ,etc) installed on a partition all on its own, just for running Classic in OS X. If I need to reboot in MacOS 9, I go back to 9.1 in another partition.
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