8.6! The great thing about not upgrading, is there is less that can go wrong!
8.6! The great thing about not upgrading, is there is less that can go wrong!
- Subject: 8.6! The great thing about not upgrading, is there is less that can go wrong!
- From: "David Christmass" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:12:45 +0000
Hi folks,
I am reading all the hype hear about the next Apple Os, and yea to be sure,
any Apple product is great. But I am kind of left here, on OS 8.6, I would
upgrade to 9.1 but that would mean that I would have trouble with some of
the IBM software I am running, and I would upgrade to X but that would
involve a complete new operating system, and X would run slower on my
machine, than classic, and putting all things aside, I just know, that what
ever the hype says, a product developed in languages that stem from the 80's
are better than the 90's or 60's, honest, it just falls that way.
Now here, I look about me, I see java this and java that, object orientated
code, great, but not so tidy, as the C+ stuff, and Apple had it right with
the resource files, and data files, a tidy system. And I look now at the
offerings, what do I get for a system revamp, a unix based OS, I can mess
around with itunes, and now, what pay for someone to host the space on the
web for the program's I write, er hang on a minute, weh hey, should these
fellows not be paying me, it took quite a long time to qualify and learn . .
.
I am not about to put the fellow off buying an OS that is new, and backwards
compatible, but for me, the only thing wrong with 8.6 is that it does not
run, the software, which is being written for X, the reverse is of course
true. That means I have older applications, but hey, they still work fine,
and I don't have the teething troubles of having to wait till someone gets
everything absolutely A1. I sit here, writing this, and I question the
motives, why make a mac OS, more like a pc one, just because half the
numbsculls on the planet, are too daft to have seen the difference.
I can honestly say, I have spent lots of time on my imac, and invested loads
of effort in a system which I believe it just right, and it ain't even 9.1.
And it is a real problem, finding a reason good enough to change something
that just works.
Ask yourselves boys, is it really worth all the agro, of an upgrade, not at
#35 squids an hour of my time it ain't.
I started by staying that "The great thing about not upgrading, is there is
less that can go wrong!" Under the hood of my bondi blue B is some awesome
piece of technology, I think the best OS that Apple ever produced, and there
are sentimental reasons too, Nanosaurous, came out the year my Nanny died,
and when the imac turned up, it did so when I was at the worst depths of
despair, and I bet a few Apple guys were feeling the same. I think the Bondi
Blue imac, the 8.6 of the C1 development is a national icon of the USA, it
is a statement, from Apple, "We are the computer company" "We don't deal in
shite".
So don't be too keen to upset the cart, with complexity, there are bucket
loads of people out there, can do people, who know the why and how of making
things happen, don't be too eager to go down the road and listen to the jerk
with a NVQ in computers, and the MS certificate, that says its new so it
must be the best, simply put, it don't count for much.
DAC
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