[WinMac] Re: Re: MacOS 9: Upgrade now or wait? ALSO: NT4/SP6 is out

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 19:43:26 -0400

At 3:47 PM -0400 10/29/99, Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
> > popup windows
>
> -> Shareware "borrowing"

        I am pretty sure that no one was doing this BEFORE Apple did...

> > sticky menus
>
> -> Shareware "borrowing"
>
> > threaded file copies and trash empties
>
> -> Long a staple of SpeedDoubler

        And Microsoft doesn't move "shareware" into the OS? I have
no problem with it since it means that you know that EVERY Mac user
has the functionality...

> >8.1 (free, but you *forgot* this one)
> > New file system, HFS+
>
> -> With *no* repair tools until NUM 3.5 many months later...

        WRONG! Disk First Aid shipped with the MacOS.

        And, Why do you insist on blaming Apple for 3rd party
screwups? Apple doesn't control the schedule for NUM, or any other
product.

> > VM system improved, using actual paged VM, nice performance increase
>
> -> Baloney: VM still requires - To this day - a contiguous block
> equal to the size of the desired VM size is required, unlike
> OS/2, NT, *nix... Or even windoze 3.1!

        But it's still a LOT better - and actually does a few thing
that the others don't in terms of caching.

> >8.6.1
> > Actually, a fix for a single problem, font corruption, not an OS
> > update. 8.6.1 is what folks called it.
>
> -> This is why you have regression testing. Even PageMaker 6.52 - One
> of the most popular MacOS apps - failed the FontFixer test.

        Actually, the PageMaker team was the one that FOUND the OS
bug to begin with!

LDR

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