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Mac Os 9 or Tiger

Dustman said:
Remember that Bomb that used to pop up when the computer crashed, telling you to restart? Remember how every time you'd click restart everything including the cursor would freeze? THEN, you'd have to take a paperclip, stick it in the side, and hope to god you poked the right spot to make it restart? I'd take one of ME's bluescreens over that.
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Yes I do!

I was a developer back then. I always had a paperclip handy for this very purpose.

Personally, I really liked Mac OS 9. I went through versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 on my personal Macs. Used 1 and 2 on a friend's Mac. Unfortunately, by version 9, the OS had become somewhat of a patchwork.
 
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What about OS X 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 & 10.3? Tiger was 10.4 and OS 9 is seriously old (even though it was better than 10.0 & 10.1 at the time)
 
Never used OS X 10.0-10.2, but I used OS 9 and earlier a lot at work, and aside from a few things it was just really aggravating. Crashes that mean a complete reboot 99% of the time instead of just restarting the app, no real multitasking, modal dialogs that block everything, a clumsy and conflict-riddled extension system, no shell, ridiculous memory management, etc. Bleah.

--Eric
 
Killyp said:
What do you prefer? Toothpaste or Disneyland?
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LOL. Fill dirt or croissants?

Most of my Mac experience is with Leopard, but I've used OS 9 (I think it was 9) in times past. There's really no comparison. It's a different era of home computing.

I'd say Leopard, but that wasn't you're original question, so if I had to choose: Tiger.
 
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