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It's all subjective, but I'm not sure why they drew the line in the sand at 10.4. 10.2 was the first release that had hardware accelerated 2D graphics, which dr
by ianlevesque 5y ago
It's all subjective, but I'm not sure why they drew the line in the sand at 10.4. 10.2 was the first release that had hardware accelerated 2D graphics, which dramatically improved the UI responsiveness of Aqua. By 10.2's release Apple had also discontinued the development of Mac OS 9.
- KerrAvon 5y agoThe OS X Finder was unusable until 10.3, and ISTR there were still other missing things from OS 9 that 10.4 finally rectified, but I don’t recall what exactly. I do recall recommending against relatives and friends installing OS X until 10.4 finally filled in the gaps. edit: you can argue with “unusable,” but I never saw anyone use the NeXT Workspace or the OS X Finder pre-10.3. Everyone on those systems used the command line to get around.
- jeromegv 5y agoI think you’re exaggerating. I was a student at a time, started with Mac OS 10.0 on a beige G3. It was slow but it worked. I browsed the web, did my homework, chatted with friends and used Classic for apps that we’re not converted to Carbon yet. It used the terminal because I was amazed I could do so much (like run my own web server), but it wasn’t a replacement to the Finder.
- OnlyMortal 5y agoIt’s worth noting that for political reasons, that I won’t go into, Finder was written with PowerPlant rather than AppKit. They even gave it some of the features of Workspace too.