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maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 30 Sep 2003 : 01:00:40 ....which one would you be? Personally, i'd like to say that i'm OS X, because i'm "with it" and stable and all that, but really, i'd be Windows 98. Two words: Memory leakage... "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
The Balance Of Judgement Senior Member Ivory Coast 1006 Posts	Posted - 30 Sep 2003 : 03:07:09 I would say one of the Mach5 systems, the UNIX of the old world. They are rock solid systems that just keep going but sadly when they do crash they go with style.
Fedorenko Junior Member Australia 463 Posts	Posted - 30 Sep 2003 : 03:27:05 RiscOS 5, looks and can be quite boring, and not many people like it Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure...
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 05:50:39 Mach5 was the 8600/9600, you're talking about Mach, a BSD kernel IIRC... here? I'd probably be Mac OS X 10.2.5 ;) remember everything, high uptimes, and such... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 07:56:06 Gem on the pc I think, well; I exist though hardly fully featured but with alot of good potential. Also to say a good thing in the wrong place I mean Gem on a pc, now Gem on Apple that I would like to see. I like everything about Apple except there os's. shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive os 8.1 128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive 3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14"
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 17:52:44 I'm probably the classic Mac OS. People think i'm simple to start out, but the first time they really get to know me they discover that quite the opposite is true. When one thing in my life crashes, everything else seems to go down the tubes as well. I'm pretty good when I can do one task at a time; anything more and I get overloaded and may require a restart. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 19:09:01 "classic" is not an OS, "Classic" is an environment in which Mac OS 7/8/9 programs may run in Mac OS X... Mac OS 9, however, is an OS that will run, at most, on a TiBook G4, and on a Dual 1.25 GHz MDD CheeseGrate powermac... well, after reading the thread again, I guess that that's not what was said I still think I'm Mac OS X, or Rhap/xStep, I can do many things at once, but there are some kinds of things which make me trip over myself (Networking, for one...) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life" Edited by - cory5412 on 01 Oct 2003 19:10:25
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 19:23:28 quote: xStep, I can do many things at once, but there are some kinds of things which make me trip over myself (Networking, for one...) I've personally found networking in NS/OS and Mac OS X very easy. You can set it all up with graphical configuration tools, and once it's going, it just works. What kind of networking issues have you had? Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 19:37:35 mostly, I haven't figured it out in OpenStep, but in Rhapsody, I have heard that all the stuff is there, but you just have to assign it it's own address, or set up DHCP somehow yourself (from a CLi)... I don't consider the current OSX to be the same beast as the older OSXserver and Rhap/xStep though... much as it might be... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
Da Penguin Senior Member USA 1094 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 19:50:44 BeOS Strange and weird, and not often heard of, but extremely fast, powerful, and good for multimedia things. ~The Penguin \| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line \| \| Captain, Intelligence Operations / Space Cowboy \| \| "The choice has been made, but now you must understand it" \|
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 01 Oct 2003 : 23:11:36 DRDOS Stable, Complicated-looking and limited looking on the outside, but on closer inspection, I can do anything you want if you know how to ask. CCC Commander Promotion: 19 Mar 2003� 13:06:30 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, an SE/30, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 02 Oct 2003 : 10:52:33 complicated looking eh? lol... I would probably be MSDOS 5.0-6.22, I can do anything, networking isn't one of my strong points, I am relatively simple at first look, and while maintaining a stable base, I am often able to become extremely complex. Much better at doing things one at a time, but if you asked me to, I'd be able to graph equations while holding out an intelligent conversation over AIM, watching TV, listeningto music etc etc, I sometimes become slow and unresponsive though. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
The Balance Of Judgement Senior Member Ivory Coast 1006 Posts	Posted - 02 Oct 2003 : 11:36:44 Slight corection Cory, Classic is both an Enviroment and OS. Older Macintosh machines do not run OS X, they run Classic Mac OS. It depends which machine it runs on whether it is an enviroment or OS. For older machines it is a full fledged OS.
brad_k New Member Canada 63 Posts	Posted - 02 Oct 2003 : 12:09:05 I'd be BeOS. It has a fast bootup, gorgeous gui with a simple elegance to it - in all a joy to use. But with all its promise, it's often overlooked and misunderstood, suffering with only a handful of applications and a diminishing user base. Yeah, I'd be BeOS. lol ______________________________________ www.32bitwonder.org ...because it's possible
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 02 Oct 2003 : 22:10:24 WHEN do peole started calling Mac OS 9 "classic Mac OS" I wouldn't call Mac OS "the new mac OS" so I don't see why y'all call OS9 the classic... anyway, right now, pick themost crashiest, least stable, worst at timesharing OS, that has tourrettes you can think of, and tell me about it, because that's what I am tonight... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
Jobf Junior Member United Kingdom 162 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 03:10:47 quote: RiscOS 5, looks and can be quite boring, and not many people like it Do you mean RiscOS 5 for MIPS or RISC OS 5 for XScale?
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 04:40:37 I'd be something big, slow, bloated, and that doesn't always do what you ask of it, but instead wanders off and does its own thing, easily distracted. Am I Windows ME? :) dana --
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 05:36:22 that sounds a bit like Windoes 98/ME... are you crashy? because that is 98, if you're not crashy, that's ME... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 05:49:33 Exactly. I haven't had anywhere near as bad experiences as everyone tells me about with ME. Its only Windows 98 that really seems to hate me. Other versions of Windows still suck though, compared to even OS 9. Seriously, if i had the choice between XP and OS 9, i'd choose OS 9, even though I'm a diehard Xer. (Yes, I'm still into 68ks and early PPCs, but don't try and talk me into loading OS 9 onto a nicely loaded G3/G4 based machine) "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 06:20:00 OS9 sucks on newer machines like that, esp. my iMac, it might be faster than running X.2 with only 96 MB of memory, but let me tell you, overall system reliability, X wins that prize easily. OS9 also uses less screen space than XP (what with the bigness of all the elements of XP on screen and such Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
dunbar New Member USA 87 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 06:28:41 Mac System 7.1 was my heyday. Classic = pre fat, yes? Hence: Classic Mac < PPC, Classic OS < 8.5 Mac+=4, MacSE=1, MacSE30=1, P400=1, PB520c=1, LCI=-1, LCII=-1, Q605=-1, Q650=1, UberQ950=1, Performa All-in-One=TBD PM7500=SQRT(-1).
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 06:31:43 lol, I'll never call OS9 and earlier classic though, classic is the BorkChild of Mac OS X, an enviroment that decreases the stability of your computer, through emulation the use of an older operating system, for those who use some older programs. I believe, that eventually, classic should be removed from Mac OS X alltogether... if I want to run OS9 apps, I could do that on my 7300, it'll run almost every single one in existance, from Crystal Quest to Word, from Excel to QuarkXPress, from AIM to PowerPoint. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 06:44:29 quote: OS9 sucks on newer machines like that, esp. my iMac, it might be faster than running X.2 with only 96 MB of memory, but let me tell you, overall system reliability, X wins that prize easily. I agree with you about how you're better off with OS X on iMacs, but before I went X, OS 9 was extremely stable for me under 96 megs of RAM. A lot of the time, i'd be running so many apps that my AppSwitcher would go 3/4 of the way down the screen (yes, I did have this very tightly configured!), and the machine didn't hiccup at all. OS X is still better though, and as soon as I get home, i'm planning on deleting the OS 9 system folder on my iMac....i never use it anymore, so its a bit of a waste of space when you consider that i have the 1400 and the PM8100 to use as my main OS 9 machines. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 10:07:42 OS9 mostly ran great after I upped it from the original 32 to the 96MB, but still it's quite a glayven what with yon's "OS9-ness" I enjoy how OS9 uses less space on the screen than OSX usually does though. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 13:22:36 I think I must be bad or somthing, everything crashes for me. Lol ME is an improvement(I went fro 95 to ME), but whats the big deal? you get to choose a profile & if the system crashes it gives you a quite polite minutes warning. Tos/Gem worked great & all others have been pants. This is not supposed to be a forum for slagging os's is it? we can re-start a new topic? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive os 8.1 128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive 3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14"
llamaboy487 Full Member USA 516 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 14:57:50 why... i'd be the llama-X Operating Environment of course... but since school started that project has slowed to a crawl... in actuality i'm probably System 6. I'm not very complicated, but i'm multitalented (MultiFinder reference ) and pretty dependable... and capable of some pretty complex, high-powered stuff if I'm needed to do it. btw, does anybody else here like Rush? Moving Pictures is a classic album... but that's waaaaaay offtopic. ________________________ IBM PS/2 Fanboy http://www.kevcave.tk = The Kevcave Manager, the llama-X project..
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 03 Oct 2003 : 19:28:15 no offense to any system 6 deveotees here, but what kinds of complicated things can system 6 do, esp. by today's standards... (or the standards in 1991) the most compicated thing I can think of system 6 doing, is a silly graphing calculator emulator that Ti made available forever ago... (a Ti-81 IIRC) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"

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