Re: MacOS 9.2.1 disappointment
Re: MacOS 9.2.1 disappointment
- Subject: Re: MacOS 9.2.1 disappointment
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 23:59:00 EDT
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At 22:51 -0400 8/24/01, email@hidden (that's me) wrote:
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>There is something else I was confused by. I thought the 9.2.1 update was
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>primarily for MacOS/Classic compatability, yet when I began the
installation,
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>a warning displayed telling me that the update would render the MacOS
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>unusable inside the MacOSX Classic environment. Kind of strange, like Mac OS
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>X Server not running on the latest hardware.
And in a message dated 8/25/01 5:46:07 PM, John W Baxter responded:
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I haven't seen that for
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9.2.1 over 9.1 on the instance I use as Classic (DP533==old slow Mac ;-))
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9.2.1 over the pure 9.1 on that machine
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9.2.1 over the only 9.1 on a company iMac
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(Mac OS X is at 10.0.4--the "regular" one, not the newer one shipped with
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the summer 2001 G4s on all those machines). I haven't seen this mentioned
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on MacFixIt (although I'm reading only a small percentage of the blizzard
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of 9.2.1 messages). It has to be something about your situation.
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Did you start from the 9.1 partition, with the Mac OS 9.1 All extensions set?
Yes.
And Michelle Steiner also commented:
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I didn't get that warning. Is your version of OS X updated to 10.0.4?
Gee I thought it was.
And it is.
But.... (!)
I discovered I still had the Public Beta installed on another partition!
Perhaps that was what the installer was seeing? I haven't bothered to boot
into MacOSX anyway (considering it to be half baked and basically unusable
for my work at present), but I'll certainly try when 10.1 comes out.
I also had commented:
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>I downloaded and installed MacOS 9.2.1 on my G4, and was surprised and
upset
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>to see that Applescript is still at version 1.6.
And Michelle retorted:
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Why? There was nothing in any information about 9.2.1 that said there
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was an update.
Now why would I do a silly thing like read the update information? : )
But seriously, every single OS update for the past 3+ years has included a
new version of Applescript. In fact, I believe that every system update since
Applescript was invented included an Applescript update. Anyone care to prove
me wrong? So naturally, I just assumed... (you get the point).
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
Jeff Baumann
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