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X or OS9: dilemma?
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X or OS9: dilemma?


  • Subject: X or OS9: dilemma?
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:19:39 +0100

On Thursday, January 1, 1970, at 02:36 AM, Johan Yokay - AIMUG wrote:

Mac OS 9 has been declared 'dead' by Steve Jobs, so I suggest that you move
up to OS X or your group will be left in the dust. You'll eventually limit
yourselves severely because many new applications (such as Office v. X) will
not run in Mac OS 9.

As is common with user groups, we have users with LCIIs and all sorts of arcane gear - including one smartypants who still uses A/UX. These people were left behind years ago and I guess there will be some left behind now with the change from 9 to X. I'd wager that the majority of users never update their OS voluntarily (based on my user group and extrapolating) but do so in order to take advantage of new stuff (usually third party apps with some requirement).

We don't focus specifically on new OSes but we report news to our users and by necesity, 90% of that news is OSX-based. Also, we do demos but the demos we run are also predominantly X-based because, for the percentage of people who attend every meeting, that sort of thing is important.

The way I see it: We're a user group. We're there for the users. We ARE the users. If the user is running System 6 then we're there. If the user is running an advance build of Jaguar then we're there. If he's a weirdo who uses A/UX then we're there...

Be well,

M
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