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Mac OS 9 and the user base
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Although I didn't switch to Mac (10.3) till 2004, I did use OS 8 and OS 9 a couple years ago many times. IMO, they were terrible OSes--multi-tasking was nearly impossible, and I found them harder to use than Windows 
. I love OS X, but I'd much rather use Windows than any pre-OS X Mac operating system.
. I love OS X, but I'd much rather use Windows than any pre-OS X Mac operating system.
Amen on that one. They did indeed suck. I'll take it one step further. I'd rather use Windows than anything pre-Tiger. Spotlight is what blew me away.Although I didn't switch to Mac (10.3) till 2004, I did use OS 8 and OS 9 a couple years ago many times. IMO, they were terrible OSes--multi-tasking was nearly impossible, and I found them harder to use than Windows
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I want my disk space and CPU back from that awful thing. UNIX has built in search capabilities that work perfectly, and don't require an index. Personally I'd like to get a system running 10.3 or earlier just to see what a pre-Spotlight/Dashboard OS X was like, from a system bloat standpoint.
I also liked the art in earlier OS X's better, I love obnoxious pinstripes.
The Finder also seems to have gotten worse over time interface wise(can't speak much for reliability).
You have to remember I was using XP at the time which had an AWEFUL indexed system search engine. It was seriously useless to me. Live-as-you-type searching that actually worked was brilliant coming from that. While UNIX has great non indexed searching it isn't particularly fast. I've still yet to use anything better than Spotlight for my personal needs. It's fast and always finds what I am looking for.
I completely disagree. Pinstripes were aweful. Finder is definitely better now although still not all that good and overall system stability is a heck of a lot better. Panther would constantly crash (total system lockup) on me when I was authoring DVD's and doing other tasks.I also liked the art in earlier OS X's better, I love obnoxious pinstripes.
I still maintain that any Mac OS pre-Tiger is complete garbage.
I had a professional print shop do all of our companies publications last year, and they were still on OS 9, much to my surprise, but as I later learned, it was because the owner didn't want to spend the cash on new Quark licenses...
I wouldn't say complete garbage - My PowerBook with 10.2 runs just fine for most things. The only real reason I really want to get Tiger on it(or, even better, pick up an iBook with Tiger on it) is because I want to update iTunes and Adium to their latest versions. Other than that, I have the latest Firefox on it, and that's all I use on a regular basis.
Yes, I would agree with that statement. I hated Macs for yearsssssss after that. Not until I saw the iMac G5 and Panther did I really start looking into Macs again.
I still like OS9's collapsable windows. I still haven't go around to minimizing to the dock. Also I liked that every UI element had it's own sound effect. Woosh, plunk, pop!
OS9 is rarer than bigfoot. My website has 6 times as many PSP visitors as pre OSX visitors... And more people have used Symbian OS than OS9 (I think thats mobile phones). Windows 95 has a very small lead over OS9 use too which I think is weird, I thought there were more windows 95 users. It seems like I get enough visitors to get a sense of OS use, OSX is at 5.5% which is a little under the current Mac market share, OS9 doesnt even register with 0%.
Interesting. My company site gets a fair amount of traffic. IE has an 88% lead, Firefox has 8%, and Safari has 2.3%, will below its marketshare.