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It’s amazing how much more central search is in modern OS’s. This feels more like the original’84 Mac, but gussied up. I like OS6 better. It was 10 years ahead
by aj7 4y ago
It’s amazing how much more central search is in modern OS’s. This feels more like the original’84 Mac, but gussied up. I like OS6 better. It was 10 years ahead of anything else, except perhaps Amiga, in the hands of a developer. This Mac OS9 actually looks like it came from a low point in Mac’s penetration and power.
- adolph 4y agoAgreed, 6 was the high point, 7 wasn’t bad and 8/9 were skeuomorphic slow lipstick on the core OS pig. Gimme 6 with original iPod any day of the week.
- aj7 4y agoThe low point was when someone at Apple had decided that dragging a document over a print icon to print the document was an important innovation. That’s about the time I switched to Windows for 18 years.
- IIsi50MHz 4y agoI started with System 6, and after getting 7.0.1, would only begrudgingly go back to 6 for apbs that needed it.
- adolph 4y agoIIsi was my first self-owned one so I largely started on 7. I discovered 6 from using a PB100 which could fit 6 and Word 4.5 in a RAMdisk persisted through restarts by the PB100's pseudostatic RAM. 6 for me at the time was the modern day equivalent of a distraction-free writing environment. Similar to using an iPad of a couple years ago in terms of how silent and instantly receptive it was to my inputs.