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I honestly miss the classic Macs of the 80s and 90s. Sure they had their bad points. The operating system let badly-behaved applications stomp all over the addr
by chongli 6y ago
I honestly miss the classic Macs of the 80s and 90s. Sure they had their bad points. The operating system let badly-behaved applications stomp all over the address space and crash the machine, and preference files (as well as the desktop database) got corrupted frequently.
But they were so easy to use! The operating system was so simple you as one person could understand the whole thing. There weren’t countless background processes running all the time. You knew exactly which applications were running (only one, in the case of system 6.0 and earlier).
And Apple was a different company back then. They were artists and underdogs. Now they’ve become this ruthless capitalist machine of staggering scale. I guess nothing good lasts forever.
- bborud 6y agoNice try. Tell you what: what if you come work for me and deal with developers whose machines break and deciding how to spend a limited hardware budget so as to maximise productivity and minimize downtime. I am, of course, assuming you will be doing this for free. Certainly the opportunity to troll people will be its own reward.