In a message dated 12/5/02 12:27:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Thanks, and I agree, I was always a big 7.6 and 8.6 fan, 8.1 came and >went and was good, but I am just centric in my example to my tastes. >Interestingly enough MacWorld characterized the upgrade as being bigger >than System 8 to Mac OS 9 ... I thought this was interesting because >the way they said it they made it clear that System 8 to Mac OS 9 was a >really big change, but I always thought of Mac OS 9 as kinda eh ...
I never had the X.6.X family, so I can't say nothing about them (never had the chance to), I started with System 6.0.5, then 6.0.7, 6.0.8, then 7.1, then 7.5.3, 7.5.5, OS 8 for a week (eek!), to 8.1, then 8.5, 8.5.1, then 9.1. I must disagree with you & with Mac World that it was a huge difference, most things on 8.5.1, were on 9.1 (the detachable menus, the folders you can place at bottom of screen, sherlock, appearance, the application name being able to show on your menu bar, etc.) and using the Web & AOL. I've got to say that other than seeing a GREAT improvement in speed and a few new useful things in the Finder menus there was nothing else that would be SO different to throw me off like some people may have experienced. Most changes were expected and longed for, REALLY! The Sherlock upgrade was really cool and the Remote Access a little hard to set up since I was on FreePPP before, but was practically the same than 8.5.1. BTW the Upgrade from ALL System 6 line to System 7 REALLY was astonishingly different, the trash and desktop being treated as a folder in older version of the OS, and you could now place icons on you files from the Finder; then the Sound, Fonts and Extensions seated on their own folder in the System folder (snd and fonts were no longer inside System file), it introduced Menu bar clock [third party though until a little later] (system 6 only had it from Moire really cool!) Then PC Exchange was introduced and Apple File Exchange, Icon/Sound Mover dropped, etc. There are others, as well. And the upgrade from all System 7 line was a big difference to 8 since the whole appearance changed, folders, a desktop pictures control panel, etc. Even scarier to me than 7. >9.0.x certainly felt like the 8.7 it was originally intended to be and >9.1 and 9.2, well, just never seemed all that special, whereas 8.5-8.6 >was a huge improvement over 8.1. I have 9.1 and think is great. I see Jaguar and think it looks great, but not for me just yet (never on my beige, no no!) maybe if I buy a newer Mac with it installed already, I don't wanna become incompatible with my other macs! I am ok with 9.1, one of the worst OS I had was 8 for about a week, I was lazy to upgrade it from the Apple website. But took a deep breath as I got it and saw the crashes and errors dissapearing. One of the craziest bugs was opening a folder with several things and not being able to scroll down AT ALL! Changing to list would NOT HELP! and I was becomming really impatient. 8.1 fixed that. Not to mention HFS+ compatibility. Lil -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
