On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Richard ramsowr wrote:
Morning As more and more folks (hold outs) are pushed and pulled into OS X kicking and screming - they spend a few hours fighting it and then as if someone had simply turned on the lights - they will look up and wonder - way hell why didn't I do this sooner! When I made the move (I guess it was about two years ago now) I was all set to mount both OS 9 and OS X (10.3) to my some what new QuickSilver 733 - but had second throughts and only mounted OS X (10.3) - I have never looked back! . . . . rick
Well, a lot of us have to keep looking back, because for us there is a lot more back than there is fore. I got my first Mac about 20 years ago, and I have tons of data created and stored in OS-6 through 9 programs that either don't exist in X or won't run in X, not even Classic X. People like me who lived in pre-X for many years have a lot invested in pre-X stuff, both data and hardware, and above all, time (watch how valuable time becomes to you as you get older). To run pre-X programs and get at this data and run the "legacy" hardware requires dropping back into 9 frequently. I have perfectly functional high-quality slide and flatbed scanners and SyQuest drives and printers and such stuff that won't run in X, or won't run with their original software, and a lot of the old 9 software controls are better than Vuescan even if the latter will run them in X. The newer Macs that won't reboot into 9 are no good to us, or if we buy one we'll have to keep at least one older Mac around also, just for access to real (not Classic) OS-9 and for use as a liaison between 9 and X.
Yes, if you are pretty new, or brand new, to the Mac, by all means install only X and never look back. But those of us with a long Mac past see X as just a recent development in a long continuum, and we must, of necessity, do lots of looking back, or rather running back and forth along this continuum to maintain our long-term investment in this technology.
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