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Re: bob - My Mac still plays solitaire - CPU stuff

Posted by bob on May 9, 2000, at 17:02:07

In reply to bob - My Mac still plays solitaire - CPU stuff, posted by Cam W. on May 9, 2000, at 0:15:43

> bob - I have OS 8.5. Is that enough?

From what I understand, 8.6 is considerably more stable than 8.5. At the least, you should check out Apple's website for any firmware updates. Just went there myself and it looks like 8.6 is a free update to 8.5 (at that level of an increment -- +.1 -- it had better be!). Go to www.apple.com, click on the Support tab, then rollover the software pop-up -- you'll see a link for 8.6 there.

> The propeller-head at work did say I would be able to use OS 10 when it comes out.

Well, who knows? Unless they come out with a G4 iMac on its release, OS10 would be excluding a considerable portion of Apple's base.

Then again, to crank the most modern OS possible out of this, they may target it for the most modern hardware. Apple's already kissed floppies, ADB, SCSI, and serial ports goodbye in the last few years. It may simply make more long-term sense not to make OS 10 backwards-compatible at all.

> Would upgrading to OS-8.6 or OS-9 be of any benefit to me. To me my computer is a glorified typewriter with Index Medicus capabilities.

Hmmm ... that means you must have something resembling a life. Tsk, tsk, tsk ... that's bad, Cam, very bad. Probably has something to do with being Canadian, you know. See, a friend of mine brought me this T-Shirt from Montreal that said: "La vie est simple. Manger. Dormir. Naviguer sur Internet." See, the problem with that is that Quebecois webmonkeys apparently SLEEP. Way too laid back. =^P

OS9 probably ain't worth the money since you already have 8.5. It has some neat internet features in Sherlock 2 and how it handles Appleshare volumes over TCP/IP connections, then there's all the voice command stuff and the Keychain, but the latter aren't necessary for you and the former are really only worthwhile with a broadband connection, IMO. (AppleTalk was slow enough ... imagine sharing files via a modem -- no, wait. Don't. We're all damaged enough around here. ;^)


cheers,
bob

 

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