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Some of y'all are YOUNG. LOL. I first used a Mac in about 1989, in college. I first got DEEP into one, for desktop publishing, a couple years later. I didn't O
by ubermonkey 4y ago
Some of y'all are YOUNG. LOL.
I first used a Mac in about 1989, in college. I first got DEEP into one, for desktop publishing, a couple years later. I didn't OWN one until my late 20s, which by that point was an OS 9 environment for a couple years until OS X happened.
I never loved the old System like some Mac people do. It was faster and more stable than Win98, and definitely worked better on laptops, but that was a low bar indeed. It wasn't until OS X that the Mac got crazy stable and attracted the attention of web devs, which in turn drove the renaissance of the platform.
- endemic 4y agoYeah, I remember thinking how awesome it was to open up a bash shell and ssh into a server while using a Macintosh.
- ubermonkey 4y agoThat's cool, but even cooler was that for many things you didn't even NEED to do that. OS X shipped with regular Apache, and builds existed for all the dev tools and server languages you could want. I ran Mason on my Mac for a project I was on. I could develop locally, and then just rsync to my dev server to do next level tests, etc.
- smm11 4y agoMy Apple IIe was a BBS in 1982.