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The 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 Syst
by ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
The 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."