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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2002-12-27 05:26 pm

Doggy

The O'Reilly page about Mac OS X in a Nutshell is up. My page about it has changed in an appropriate fashion.

[identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com 2002-12-28 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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.