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MacOS 8: where's the love?
- Thread starter Bunsen
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When I got into Mac's OS 7 was already out. Therefore I first started on it and did a ton of tech support for the local ISP as one of the few Mac techs they had. When OS 8 was launched my employer bought all the Mac guys a copy of it so we could run it at home and play around with it and also we dual booted our work machines with it and System 7.
Throughout my formative years as a Mac guy I always thought that OS 8 was the best OS out there (Unless we're talkin' UNIX or NT, then it didn't come up in conversation). I though that Platinum UI was a thing of beauty, HFS+ was not only a requirement but even on smaller HD's made more efficient use of data chunks.
I will always have a place in my heart for OS 8 because it is Insanely Great!
Throughout my formative years as a Mac guy I always thought that OS 8 was the best OS out there (Unless we're talkin' UNIX or NT, then it didn't come up in conversation). I though that Platinum UI was a thing of beauty, HFS+ was not only a requirement but even on smaller HD's made more efficient use of data chunks.
I will always have a place in my heart for OS 8 because it is Insanely Great!
:lol:
Personally, I'd cheat and use a Ballista w/a flat platform tip, replacing the normal BIG@$$ arrow head. }
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] ]'>IDidn'tRC, just found a fully (but flattened inside a ziploc bag) boxed set of 8.5 in my OS drawer. I must've needed to fix a borked (AKA AOL afflicted) system on my 6360 at some point . . . [:I] ]'>
:lol: Good one & well done, herr professor!Macs
Macs
Macs
Macs!!!
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Got one for the "than vs. then" problem or is that another Anglic-Oz-NZ English/American (world standard [
] ]'> ) English distinction?Reposted link to graphic due to Page Break induced discontinuity issues, NOT due to "quote function" misuse!!!!
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What about MACs, Bunsen?
Media Access Control as in ethernet MAC address.
This Mac's MAC ID's .....
= The ID of the MAC belonging to this Mac is ....
This Mac's MAC's broken.
= The MAC belonging to this Mac is broken.
This Mac's MAC's RJ45 socket's loose.
= The socket belonging to the MAC belonging to this Mac is loose.
There are 35 Macs in this lab. All of these Macs have MACs installed, but none of the Macs' MACs are working. It may be an issue with this model MAC's Mac drivers, or the Mac's generic MAC drivers, installed by default in all of these Macs. These Macs' sysadmin is Tom Ferbelknapfkopfel; these Macs are all under his control. It's likely that these Macs're on their way out the door anyway; if that's the case this here Mac'll be going home with me.
Contraction of "is": apostrophe
Belonging, possession: apostrophe
Plural: NO apostrophe
Plural possession: apostrophe ~after~ plural "s" (because no-one writes or says "Macs's" or "Macse's"; that would be silly)
Capiçe?
= The ID of the MAC belonging to this Mac is ....
This Mac's MAC's broken.
= The MAC belonging to this Mac is broken.
This Mac's MAC's RJ45 socket's loose.
= The socket belonging to the MAC belonging to this Mac is loose.
There are 35 Macs in this lab. All of these Macs have MACs installed, but none of the Macs' MACs are working. It may be an issue with this model MAC's Mac drivers, or the Mac's generic MAC drivers, installed by default in all of these Macs. These Macs' sysadmin is Tom Ferbelknapfkopfel; these Macs are all under his control. It's likely that these Macs're on their way out the door anyway; if that's the case this here Mac'll be going home with me.
Contraction of "is": apostrophe
Belonging, possession: apostrophe
Plural: NO apostrophe
Plural possession: apostrophe ~after~ plural "s" (because no-one writes or says "Macs's" or "Macse's"; that would be silly)
Capiçe?
On topic (which?): Bravo! beachycove. OS 8.6 is the making of a (NuBus) PB 1400. Its 64-MB RAM ceiling does not make use of OS 9.1 useful—not least because a 1400 has to be cozened into accepting the installation—but (especially with a Sonnet G3/400 under the hood) a 1400 with 8.6 is much more the Kaped Krusader than it is with a 603e.
On the off-topic: There is, supposedly, some reason to believe that the use of 's to denote genitive/possessive in the essentially undeclned and analytical modern English language—as opposed to any of its declined forefathers—stems from first the spoken and then the written elision of 'hi' from 'his', as in 'Lord Willoughby his March' = 'Lord Willoughby's March'. True or not, it gives a useful mnemonic to the generations who have been betrayed by the society (and its ideologues) that has failed to teach English as a language to its most needful members: children. No-one in 's right mind would have planned a language that forms both plurals and possessives with an appended 's', so some system of distinguishing them 's needed.
The next homily will be on elision.
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On the off-topic: There is, supposedly, some reason to believe that the use of 's to denote genitive/possessive in the essentially undeclned and analytical modern English language—as opposed to any of its declined forefathers—stems from first the spoken and then the written elision of 'hi' from 'his', as in 'Lord Willoughby his March' = 'Lord Willoughby's March'. True or not, it gives a useful mnemonic to the generations who have been betrayed by the society (and its ideologues) that has failed to teach English as a language to its most needful members: children. No-one in 's right mind would have planned a language that forms both plurals and possessives with an appended 's', so some system of distinguishing them 's needed.
The next homily will be on elision.
de
Vry shrt thn?
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