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> By the way, a Mac still lets you select a boot drive in the exact same way. The UI might be similar here, but the experience is vastly different. Back in The
by Lammy 6y ago
> By the way, a Mac still lets you select a boot drive in the exact same way.
The UI might be similar here, but the experience is vastly different. Back in The Day it was pretty common to build customized System Folders by hand to fit your personal needs and your machine's resource limits, e.g. to fit in a RAM Disk on a PowerBook to save battery on the go. The minimum bootable (note: not "usable") blessed folder could be just two files — a System suitcase and the Finder executable.
- pram 6y agoI know what you mean, but I wouldn't say it was pretty common. Most of the systems I saw back then had very long boots while all the random 20 extensions fired up.