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I am so glad that we seem to be starting to crawl out of the minimalist local minimum.
by smallmancontrov 1y ago
I am so glad that we seem to be starting to crawl out of the minimalist local minimum.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoThe one thing that I remember about Aqua, was what it did to performance. Before OSX was released, we were seeded prerelease copies, but with the original System 7 UI. It was really fast. When the first Aqua release came out, the performance dropped like a stone.
- classichasclass 1y agoThat sounds like Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server (which would have been Platinum). And it is, indeed, quite snappy. I have it on a Wallstreet G3 and it runs very well.
- mrkpdl 1y agoThe aqua interface first shipped in Mac OS X Developer Preview 3. So they could be referring to DP2 which had a platinum like interface but was released after Apple had moved on from the rhapsody concept.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoThat sounds about right. It was a while ago, so my memory is fuzzy.
- wmf 1y agoThe slowdown was probably the switch from Display PostScript to Quartz.
- schmidtleonard 1y agoA quarter century of Moore's Law smashes that from "small problem" to "utterly nonexistent problem."