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The 8.5 and 8.6 branches of Mac OS were great, I feel. I hosted lots of servers on them, especially 8.6.2. However, every single other version of the OS was a b
by VonGuard 11y ago
The 8.5 and 8.6 branches of Mac OS were great, I feel. I hosted lots of servers on them, especially 8.6.2. However, every single other version of the OS was a buggy, crashing nightmare if you were looking for extended uptime. 7.6.1 was halfway OK, but man, I never kept a Mac OS running as long as in 8.6.2. I had months of up time, I'm telling you. Months!
- yuhong 11y agoThere is no Mac OS 8.6.2. Thinking about it, Blue Box running on NuKernel with Copland-style background server apps would probably not have been bad, especially with the use of Pascal instead of C strings which helped security.
- VonGuard 11y agoI must mean 8.6. I think I am confusing it with 8.5.1.... It has been 16 years..... 8.5.1 and 8.6 were the greatest, though... Anyway, the great thing about hosting on Classic Mac OS is that there was nothing to exploit. With no remote admin capabilities beyond some Appletalk-related stuff, even if someone did find a way to compromise your system, the only thing they could really do was freeze it. I threw a Mac OS 7.5-ish (obviously I am forgetting numebrs) Mac up on the Defcon LAN and put the IP on the whiteboard for targets, and not a damn thing happened. Not even a hang...