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Methinks Apple knew about X before they told us :P

MultiFinder

MultiFinder

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http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4849/picture3hk0.png

That be from browsing a Power Macintosh 6/7/8100 System install CD version 7.1.2. Don't those little X's look familiar?!?!?

;)

And yes, I'm using OS 9. I have been for about a month now, and the disablement of my main G4 has extended my use of it beyond the initial week or so that I'd planned, prolly pushing it at least until the end of the semester now :) . Great OS once you get used to its limitations, and I'll never want to go back to X on this screen. Platinum @ 1440x900 is GODLY :D

 
Anonymous Freak

Anonymous Freak

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hehe.. I have a beige G3 running OS 8 at 1920x1200 on a 19" CRT. The icons are so itty-bitty, it's nearly unusable. (It's my AppleShare server, so I have every single AppleShare status window open on it simultaneously, with no overlaps.

 
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paws

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What resolution be that?

And what're ye doing to make OS9 use 96 mega bites of RArrM?

 
MultiFinder

MultiFinder

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What resolution be that?
And what're ye doing to make OS9 use 96 mega bites of RArrM?
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That be 1440x900.

I have no clue to be honest :p I would assume that just having so many apps open, along with not ever rebooting the machine (I seem to be able to go a week in OS 9 before I end up rebooting) got me there. I don't really mind though. With 704 megs overall, who cares? :D But yeah, if anyone here has any ideas and wishes to clue me in, please do!

 
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paws

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The system itself appears to be taking up 96 MB.

Do you not manually clean yer System Foddler? I don't keep so much as one preferences file that I don't need - it's one of the great joys of OS less-than-Eggs.

 
MultiFinder

MultiFinder

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The system itself appears to be taking up 96 MB.
Do you not manually clean yer System Foddler? I don't keep so much as one preferences file that I don't need - it's one of the great joys of OS less-than-Eggs.
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Yeah, I agree that the system is taking up 96 megs. It seems to grow a bit with every app I launch; I noticed that under 9.1 on my 6500.

It starts out around 40 when freshly booted, so It kinda confuses me, but w/e. It can grow 400 more before I'll notice ;)

 
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~tl

~tl

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Sounds like something is leaking memory... try booting with the base set of extensions and see if it still does it.

 
Quadraman

Quadraman

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http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4849/picture3hk0.png
That be from browsing a Power Macintosh 6/7/8100 System install CD version 7.1.2. Don't those little X's look familiar?!?!?

;)

And yes, I'm using OS 9. I have been for about a month now, and the disablement of my main G4 has extended my use of it beyond the initial week or so that I'd planned, prolly pushing it at least until the end of the semester now :) . Great OS once you get used to its limitations, and I'll never want to go back to X on this screen. Platinum @ 1440x900 is GODLY :D
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When they designed the OS X logo they probably used a capital X from whatever font they had lying around that they didn't have to pay royalties on. There's no way anyone inside Apple at the time of 7.1.2 could have predicted OS X was coming.

 
zerohour

zerohour

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Why not after all all OS X is only a logical progression of NeXTStep and Jobs did creat the whole NeXT series

 
Anonymous Freak

Anonymous Freak

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Except "Macintosh Basics" and Mac OS 7 were created well after the departure of Steve Jobs from Apple, so he had no input into the creation of anything from about the Plus era (he was even gone before the Plus was introduced, but I'm sure he still had some input early in the design process of the Plus,) to the earliest G3s.

 
MultiFinder

MultiFinder

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'Twas but a joke, my good people!

Jeebus, some of y'all need to stop taking things so seriously. Even I know they weren't working on the OS X logo in *insert CD copyright date check here* 1994 :p

I'd totally take you advice Tom, but I can only imagine that a week or so on the base extensions would be absolutely no fun at all. I'll repost something if it gets any worse. Thanks though :)

 
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paws

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Except "Macintosh Basics" and Mac OS 7 were created well after the departure of Steve Jobs from Apple, so he had no input into the creation of anything from about the Plus era (he was even gone before the Plus was introduced, but I'm sure he still had some input early in the design process of the Plus,) to the earliest G3s.
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EVERYONE with even the SLIGHTEST KNOWLEDGE of Apple history will know that EVERYTHING APPLE EVER DID WAS LAID OUT PERFECTLY, TIMED AND PLANNED! FROM THE BEGINNING!! You obviously know NOTHING of APPLE HISTORY!

 
MacMan

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It is probably just a coincidence that the icons and OS X logo look similar but sometimes an idea can be inspired from something that someone saw long before. To elaborate, maybe the person desinging the OS X logo had once seen the same icons as you found and used them for inspiration on a conscious or sub-conscious level.

 
Scott Baret

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Absolutely. I remember seeing a computer that looked suspiciously like the iMac G4 somewhere in the AppleDesign book.

 
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Cory5412

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It is probably just a coincidence that the icons and OS X logo look similar but sometimes an idea can be inspired from something that someone saw long before. To elaborate, maybe the person desinging the OS X logo had once seen the same icons as you found and used them for inspiration on a conscious or sub-conscious level.
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Or, as SVP mentioned a few posts further up, it's the capital X character rendered in Apple Garamond.

But yeah, as Jobs liked to quote picasso as having said... "good artists borrow, great artists steal" or something to that end.

 
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