Pre OS X questions

[5300cs]

You obviously never used Windows NT 4. Ever other MS OS up to that point was a joke.

Eh, I used it a few times, but not long enough to have my own opinion on it. I've heard plenty of grumbling about it, though. Of all the versions of windows, I guess I liked 2000 the best (if I can I say I liked windows.) Pretty stable, no excess GUI nonsense- just straight to the point. XP and it's activation nonsense I won't get into, but it's a real pain (maybe if people stopping pirating the damn thing )

As for classic Mac OS, I never installed things that I didn't trust, and I went through my Extensions every so often to get rid of things I didn't need anyway. For example, I installed OS 9 on my TAM. After installing, I used Extension Manager to disable extensions I didn't need, like FireWire, USB, the internal modem, the Rio MP3 player extension, etc. Each extension that loads ads to the amount of memory used by the Finder and I managed to reduce it by 5 or 10mb.

As for repairing permissions, I never had to do that with Linux or any of the other UNIX flavors I've used.

 

[aussie_geek]

I use two PowerMac beige G3 towers at work for medical image processing. They use Mac OS 8.1.

In the last 9 months (since I have been here) they have bombed once due to the fact that I was doing a few to many things at the same time. Mac OS is a very stable operating system in my opinion.

I have a PC at work also running Windows 95. It crashes at least 4 times a week.


aussie_geek