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I have several clients who are running System 9 specifically so that they can continue to use Quark 5. They have RIPs and image setters that will cost tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade. So they are stuck in a decade old time warp.

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Originally Posted by wdympcf (Post 408778)

What is an example of an application that installs a kernel extension in OS X?

APE

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Originally Posted by J Christopher (Post 408705)

Graphing Calculator

I find the OS X version of GC even better than the classic, and quite reasonably priced. Compared to Grapher, it is much faster and is more tolerant of errors (with much better error messages), although it has slightly less functionality in areas like ODEs and vector fields.

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Originally Posted by AHunter3 (Post 408805)

I guess I'm kind of tired to see people trashing OS 9. (and its antecedents)

Up until 10.2, MacOS X users had no excuse to point fingers at OS 9 for instability.

The interface, the GUI, the consistency, the ease of use, was spectacular. It was a system that had come of age. MacOS X is even now not clearly better. It's finally gotten to the point that OS 9 no longer trounces it in a head-to-head comparison of elegance, consistency and usability. But OS 9 was, dammit, earlier. To state the obvious. And it was very very very good at doing what operating systems need to do as their first and fundamental chore: BEING the computer to the user and making the computer responsive to the user's wishes with a minimum of opacity and confusion.

I still consider the classic MacOS (culminating in OS 9) to be the best OS of the 20th Century.

Once I got in the habit of regularly trashing my Finder preferences and my System preferences, my old G4 powermac with OS 9.1 purred like a kitten. That one hint made life so much more tranquil.

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Originally Posted by AHunter3 (Post 408805)

I still consider the classic MacOS (culminating in OS 9) to be the best OS of the 20th Century.

So do I. It's easy to denigrate it by comparing it to current operating systems that have had nearly 10 years to surpass it. While it isn't as capable, it's still more polished than Linux and far less intrusive than any version of Windows.

The GC story was awesome.

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Originally Posted by J Christopher (Post 408705)

Graphing Calculator

Wow. What wonderful lunatics.