1. Shouldn't this question of existence be on the Religion forum?
2. I use "OSex" because of the way it sounds (duh)
2. I use "OSex" because of the way it sounds (duh)
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Well I Guess Everyone Knows Mac OS 9 Exists
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Knew of it, used it
I guess I could say that I really started my mac experience on an Mac Plus at middle school. My parents got a Performa 550 OS7 and after that it was an iMac with 8.6.
In college the graphic G3/4 machines used OS 9.x until they upgraded to Jaguar and Panther for the G5's.
I guess I could say that I really started my mac experience on an Mac Plus at middle school. My parents got a Performa 550 OS7 and after that it was an iMac with 8.6.
In college the graphic G3/4 machines used OS 9.x until they upgraded to Jaguar and Panther for the G5's.
I have heard of OS 9, and i kinda wanna use it, but i cant because im on an intel MBP.
Plus, i think OSX should be pronounced OS ex, mostly because its based off unix, and almost all *nix based operating systems squeeze in an X somewhere. Plus, OS ex sounds way better than OS ten.
Plus, i think OSX should be pronounced OS ex, mostly because its based off unix, and almost all *nix based operating systems squeeze in an X somewhere. Plus, OS ex sounds way better than OS ten.
No, the emulator options are really poor quality and hard to use. You'd be better off just picking up a used Mac for like $25.
Mac OS 7 is much more fun though.
I think a better poll question would be: "Before OS X, did any of you longer-term Mac users even know that UNIX existed?"
I've known Macs since I've had a performa 550 as a little child. It was lots of fun. Until we got a pc.
mm no this is my first mac
in the past i used imacs G3 with something i think it was OS9...i was glad to have a PC
in the past i used imacs G3 with something i think it was OS9...i was glad to have a PC
Odd... I had had extensive experience with many flavors of Unix (like IRIX, Solaris, BSD, A/UX) years before the first time I even saw Windows in action (around 1990 for Unix, around 1997 for Windows). Infact I had worked with Linux long before Windows too (around 1994 for Linux).I think a better poll question would be: "Before OS X, did any of you longer-term Mac users even know that UNIX existed?"
Windows PCs were office and home computers... used for spreadsheets, typing and games. I knew of no one that owned or used them personally. Infact the first few PCs I ever saw were bought for the express purpose of running Linux on them.
Come to think of it, I may have even seen OS/2 Warp in action before Windows.
PCs were just not used for real computing back then.
I started using Macs with OS 6.
Imo 9.2.2 was a fantastic OS - best since 7.6 - took me some time to be convinced of OSX, finally jumped ship at about 10.2.4 i think.
Imo 9.2.2 was a fantastic OS - best since 7.6 - took me some time to be convinced of OSX, finally jumped ship at about 10.2.4 i think.
I love Tiger, but I think OS 9 completely sucks, and I have no idea how anybody can still use it today. Maybe it was just the computer I was on (iMac G3 with 256 RAM I think) but it constantly crashed when I used more then one program. Sometimes I would have nothing open and try to open an app, and I would get the notice that there wasn't enough RAM to open the app. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
Yes... most people who report outrageous experiences like this tend to not be very familiar with the ins and outs of the classic Mac OS - usually expecting it to work like Windows.
With the right user it worked much better than any contemporary version of Windows.
Hmm...
* For me there was ProDOS from 1983 to 1992
* Various flavors of Windows
* Started back on System 6
* Went back to Windows after System 7 (pre-7.6)
* Back to Macs on OS9
* Now having a lot of "OS X"
* For me there was ProDOS from 1983 to 1992
* Various flavors of Windows
* Started back on System 6
* Went back to Windows after System 7 (pre-7.6)
* Back to Macs on OS9
* Now having a lot of "OS X"
Gods, there's a blast from the past. OS/2 Warp was our dorm's server machine in college.
System 7.6
I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month."
-- Steven Wright
Started with DOS 3.3 on an Apple II. To this day, I have to stop myself from typing 'catalog' at a prompt. (Ha. Silly me! It had no lower-case!!)
First Mac, performa, with 7.6. Brother had one with System 6... I think it holds guppies now, or goldfish....
I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month."
-- Steven Wright
Started with DOS 3.3 on an Apple II. To this day, I have to stop myself from typing 'catalog' at a prompt. (Ha. Silly me! It had no lower-case!!)
First Mac, performa, with 7.6. Brother had one with System 6... I think it holds guppies now, or goldfish....
Regarding the "dual boot" thing, we have gone backwards:
Before: Dual Boot Mac OS X and Mac OS 9
Now: Dual Boot Mac OS X and Windows XP
Not really progress, eh?
Right...blame the user. That always works.
Sorry, but "Classic" was sucktastic, and I personally didn't expect it to work like Windows (which I didn't use at all until later)...I just expected it to work. Which it didn't, as often as it did....--Eric
To be fair, I used OS 9 after I was introduced to Tiger, but it was barely usuable when I did try it. I was expecting something a little better at least.
Right...blame the user. That always works.
Well, it worked fine for millions of people for almost 20 years. Yes, today it is nearly impossible to use classic as a sole system. But it was good prior to OS X, better than Windows 9x to all the people who switched before OS X came out.