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The 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.
by KerrAvon 5y ago
The 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.