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In my opinion, Mac OS 7 [0] was one of the best versions of Mac OS. It was small enough for people to understand most of it. I liked how one could extend the sy
by wsc981 10y ago
In my opinion, Mac OS 7 [0] was one of the best versions of Mac OS. It was small enough for people to understand most of it. I liked how one could extend the system using Extensions. Debugging problematic Extensions wasn't too hard, one could just remove suspect Extensions from the System Folder and perform a restart.
I think at the start of Mac OS 8, more and more bloat was added to the system, without significantly increasing it's usability.
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7
- maxxxxx 10y agoTotally agree. On Windows it's the same with Windows 2000 and XP.
- ido 10y agoi still prefer the ui of 98, even if the system itself was unstable and very bad at multitasking.
- leejoramo 10y agoAssuming you had a suspect extension. Otherwise it was time to do the restart dance with Conflict Catcher.
- digi_owl 10y agoOutside of the GUI angle, that makes me think of booting DOS. Something didn't work out quite right? Comment out a line or two from the boot files and hit reset. Damn it, i still run Linux that way. Having stuff conditionally start or stop just makes my head hurt.