On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
Lou:
If you really want to go back to OS 9 I have installation CD's that
I'd happily give you. I have no use for them as I use 10.4.3 on ALL
of MY MACS. Actually most of my Macs won't even boot OS 9. Why you'd
wish to live in the past and run an OS that will be officially dead
(although it's not supported anymore by Apple--sort of makes it dead
now) as of January 11th is beyond me.
Tim, I wish Apple had made a better, more elegant and efficient
interface than this X crap, but you are *wildly* misinterpreting my
post! The questioner asked how to get rid of the dock - I said go back
to 9. That was my cynical response, as the dock is built into the new
X. She can hide it and work around it but not get rid of it...
Just because OS9 is no longer supported does not mean it wasn't good -
Apple wanted to sell everybody new computers so they crippled them by
obsoleteing 9! Corporate marketing decision. Sure, there is lots more
that can be done by borrowing the unix structure, but I honsetly
thought at one time that they were smart enough to invent something new
and better. No, just design a cartoonish GUI and use the older system
rather than re-inventing the system! Of course the code was old and
patched, so a change was needed, but I think they went the wrong way
and failed to innovate.
Mind you, I am not a programmer, not even a typist, so I'm not saying I
could do it better, but I am quite certain that we are in the infancy
of computing and there will be many better ways over the next century
and beyond, and what we have to put up with now is so primitive and
crude that the designers are busilly making it into entertaining
cartoons so we think it is cool.... Some of us don't think it is cool.
But if you have 9.1 installation CDs I'll happily take them! I have
9.0.4 and have to install and upgrade to do 9.1... Two iMacs here
could use it, and I have a perfectly functional 9500/G3 and a 7100/G3
that have "obsolete" audio cards and that I use for editing audio, and
a fresh install would not hurt them a bit. My current work Macs are G4s
and won't do a 9 boot, so I learned to live with the recent 10.3.9 but
do not use tiger as it is too chidlish looking and too many gewgaws and
widgets that get in the way of my professional audio work...
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
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