Keen... I'm going to have to pick this up, if not only because of nostalgia value, but because it looks like a pretty useful book if/when I get a Mac which can properly run OS X.
My current mac, (a PowerMac 7500 upgraded with a 450MHz G3 card and extra ram) may be capable of running OS X with the right patch or so but it sounds like it'll be more trouble than it's worth for now.
It's a shame they don't have any books with skunks on them :-) I've already gotten the opossum book (Word 98 Annoyances).
Mac OS X would theoretically run on that if you piled in the RAM (at least 256 MB of it) but would still probably be at least a little sluggish even then. It ran acceptably on my G3/500 iBook w/256. I'd hazard to guess that the upgrade card doesn't fix the speed bottleneck of the motherboard's bus, either.
Yeah.. That's what I figure. I only have 160meg of ram on it right now and it actually seems like plenty for what I normally do (haven't had many memory warnings... only when explorer goes buggy and leaks memory) although I was thinking of adding some more.
A couple OS X problems which seem to come to mind: I heard there were problems with OS X on older macs which have USB PCI cards -- specifically, OS X doesn't seem to support them. Also, OS X apparently has a problem with versions of Photoshop prior to 7.
Lastly -- Some have suggested keeping both OS X and OS 9 because of OS X's current compatibility problems -- I don't want to have to monkey with jumping back and forth between OSes... I played that game when I first got my A3000 (AmigaOS 2.x first came out... but was buggy so they included 1.3 with a way to select one during boot-up).
It does, however, sound like OS X is a lot easier to program for than earlier Mac OSes simply because of it being Unix based. I appreciate that, maybe we'll finally see more Mac software from both the hobbyist and commercial markets.
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Date: 2002-12-28 11:38 am (UTC)My current mac, (a PowerMac 7500 upgraded with a 450MHz G3 card and extra ram) may be capable of running OS X with the right patch or so but it sounds like it'll be more trouble than it's worth for now.
It's a shame they don't have any books with skunks on them :-) I've already gotten the opossum book (Word 98 Annoyances).
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Date: 2002-12-28 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-28 01:21 pm (UTC)A couple OS X problems which seem to come to mind: I heard there were problems with OS X on older macs which have USB PCI cards -- specifically, OS X doesn't seem to support them. Also, OS X apparently has a problem with versions of Photoshop prior to 7.
Lastly -- Some have suggested keeping both OS X and OS 9 because of OS X's current compatibility problems -- I don't want to have to monkey with jumping back and forth between OSes... I played that game when I first got my A3000 (AmigaOS 2.x first came out... but was buggy so they included 1.3 with a way to select one during boot-up).
It does, however, sound like OS X is a lot easier to program for than earlier Mac OSes simply because of it being Unix based. I appreciate that, maybe we'll finally see more Mac software from both the hobbyist and commercial markets.