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Covering Mac OS 9 and 10
Step
backward to go forward, John Holmes, osOpinion, 12/29.
"...Apple's only hope for survival is to get OS X on as many boxes
as they can, as quickly as they can."
Top UI
grievances of Mac OS X, Dave Giovannini, osOpinion, 12/27. Read
this article to better understand why OS X is different.
The OS X interface, John
Cristie, My Turn, 11/27. Aqua simplifies the Mac interface,
encouraging exploration.
OS X is a big, scary, unknown
beast, Chris Lawson, Tech Reflections, 11/21. "Why does OS X
scare me? Probably most importantly, it's still very
unfamiliar."
The
big problem with Mac OS X, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac
Observer, 11/7. "Once we saw Mac OS X, strong with its Unix base,
protected memory, symmetric multiprocessing, preemptive
multitasking and all the changes, panic grabbed many of us."
Opinion: Test
drive musings of a (slightly wavering) OS X skeptic, Charles W.
Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/25. "While OS 9 is pretty
stable on my PowerBook, I am looking forward to protected memory
and preemptive multitasking with OS X. I just hope the new
interface doesn't slow down my work too much."
Rumor? The OS X on Alpha
Project, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, 10/16. Whether you believe
Motorola can actually ship a 1 GHz processor in the near future,
Apple isn't betting on it.
Bring back beige, Stephen
Van Esch, Mac Scope, 10/11. Instead of porting OS X to Intel, how
about an inexpensive beige Mac that ships with the real OS X?
OS X: The NeXT
Apple OS, MSNBC, 10/6. "Make no mistake about it: the complete
overhaul of the Macintosh operating system is a very big
deal."
OS X: Adventures
in X, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 10/4. "With just a few minutes
of using the OS X Beta, it's obvious that it's not the Mac OS and
it won't feel like the Mac OS for quite some time."
OS X: Road to
OS X: Things to fix, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/28. The beta
is promising, but missing some very helpful features Mac users are
used to.
Moving to Mac OS 9, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 9/28. Until now, we haven't had a reason to
install Mac OS 9. Now that we have, we find it very solid.
Analysis: OS X on
upgraded Macs?, David Read, MacWeek, 9/26. "Upgrade vendors
face several obstacles in getting their products to work with Mac
OS X."
Opinion: The Mac user's blind
spot, Stephen Van Esch, 9/27. At $30 a copy, about 100,000 of
us are willing to pay Apple so we can beta test their new OS.
Logical?
OS X: Inside the
public beta, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 9/19. "...you won't
appreciate how much you've relied on the Apple menu and Application
Switcher until you run Mac OS X."
OS: OS X
Server gets perfect score, MacNN, 9/16. OS X Server (not to be
confused with OS X) scores 5 out of 5, surpassing Windows NT
Server.
OS X: No
printer drivers in sight for OS X, MacWeek, 9/15. Sorry, but
you just won't be able to print to those Epson, HP, Canon, and
other USB ink-jet printers for a while.
Rumor? Mac OS X
on 68k Macs, Jag's House. How to run Mac OS X on a Quadra.
Really. ;-)
OS X: Reader impressions of
public beta, Xappeal, 9/14. "Overall impression: while there
are still a few rough edges that make it obvious that this is a
beta, the quality is astonishing overall."
OS X:
Inside Mac OS X Public Beta, ZDNet, 9/11. Requires 128 MB RAM,
1.5 GB drive space. List of unsupported things is vast: most
third-party video cards, AirPort, multiple monitors, second ATA
drives, more. :-(
OS: OS X beta
release date announced, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 8/29. "If
OS X is half of what it promises to be, and Beta is half of that,
then we will still have the best operating system in the
world."
OS: Mac
OS X: A new beginning, Gene Steinberg, Arizona Central, 8/22.
"...the beginning of the end of the original Macintosh operating
system as we know it."
News: XLR8
announces OS X compatibility for upgrades, Applelinks, 7/26.
Carrier ZIF, MACh Carrier, and MACh Speed upgrades will work with
OS X. (Just waiting for Newer to make the same promise....)
Opinion: Mac
OS X: The lessons of Mac OS 9, Kevin Bradley, MacInStart. "If
the roll-out of Mac OS 9 last October taught me anything with
regard to the upcoming release of OS X, it was this: wait."
Opinion: Will Eazel be more faithful to the Macintosh vision
than OS X?, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 6/16. "...the thinking
behind Eazel may well be truer to the original Mac essence than OS
X itself."
X things I love about X,
Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future, 6/14. Ten things to look forward to
in Mac OS X.
Hands on: OS X
dock? We got your dock: A-Dock 2.0, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie,
6/13. We tried it; we like it. Shareware helps you prepare for one
OS X innovation.
OS: Revolutionizing
Mac's operating system, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check,
Arizona Central, 6/13. "While the Mac OS has undergone many changes
since being introduced in 1984, there's a direct resemblance
between version 1.0 and 9.0.4."
OS: Moving to OS
X, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 6/11. "Mac OS X will change the Mac
experience in ways that go beyond the interface."
OS: Core
changes to the Mac System, BusinessWeek, 5/31. "OS X, Apple's
new operating system, fundamentally transforms the venerable
Macintosh desktop."
OS: User runs OS X DP4 on
Power Mac 7500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 5/30. Maybe there is hope
for my SuperMac S900 with an "unsupported" installation.
Opinion: The death of
sprockets, Brian Greenstone, Inside Mac Games. "I have to admit
that my perception of the Games Session at WWDC was that Apple is
killing the games API's and not replacing them with
anything...."
Review: Mac OS 9: The
Missing Manual, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/19. ...David
Pogue's "Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual" delivers on its promise to
be "the book that should have been in the box."
Analysis: Multiprocessing
on the Mac, David Read, MacWeek, 5/18. "Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X,
in contrast, support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). Here, all
processors are treated as equals, and the OS automatically threads
tasks to any available chip."
OS: Mac OS X, Apple
Computer. Straight from the horse's mouth, including screen shots
of DP4.
OS: Mac OS X, Macs
Only!, 5/16. New hope for older Power Macs: "According to Apple,
Mac OS X is designed to run on all Macintosh computers using
PowerPC G3 and G4 processor chips, and requires a minimum of 64 MB
of memory."
OS: OS X looks
like a Mac, MacWeek, 5/15. "With DP4, Mac OS X now has a more
Mac-like Finder."
Opinion: Sydow's Mind of Macness: An iMac or an iPC?, Don Parks
Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/15. "It's pretty unlikely that Apple will
ever make a Mac OS capable of running on a PC that sports an Intel
processor, right? Wrong!"
Opinion: Can Apple seize the day?, David Schultz, 5/15.
"Microsoft is on the ropes; other options are springing up by which
Apple can distinguish itself, and Apple itself is coming out of its
second infancy."
Opinion: The "one OS"
strategy, Think Secret, 5/12. Speculation that the "one OS" may
be Darwin, not OS X. Provocative viewpoint.
Opinion: Apple,
serve Mac OS X online, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/4. "What if
Apple created an online version of Mac OS X and its Aqua
interface?" Anyone with a browser could experience it!
Opinion: Mac OS X and
Aqua tidbits, Think Secret, 5/2. Whether this comes from an
anonymous Apple insider or not, it's a very thoughtful piece on
"the iMac OS."
Review: Mac OS 9:
The Complete Reference, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 4/28.
"Gene Steinberg's 'Mac OS 9: The Complete Reference' is a tome in
the tradition of those great Mac books...."
OS: Think
difficult: Extending Mac OS X, MacWeek, 4/13. "Apple's
forthcoming Mac OS X may change the way Mac users interact with
their favorite computer, but it will have an even bigger impact on
the companies that develop Mac OS utilities."
Opinion: OS X: A
major salvo against Windows or just a backfire?, George Graves,
Holy Mac!, 4/4. "Most Mac users would be very happy if this new OS
looked and felt like OS 9 yet had all of the buzzword technologies
working seamlessly and invisibly underneath. Unfortunately, OS X is
not that operating system...."
Opinion: Are Aqua-skeptics
luddites?, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 3/29. "I
have no interest in change for the sake of change, or in putting
form before function, and I really have no time for change that
makes things worse."
Opinion: Does Darwin
open the door to Intel?, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/27. "Look at it
this way: what sells the iMac? Is it the processor...?"
Opinion: Mac OS X: the big
change, Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future, 3/7. "Interfaces must
and will continue to change with time. Can you imagine computers a
hundred years from now even using graphic interfaces?"
Humor:
Dr. !Seuss on Aqua, Mac Observer, 3/1. "I do not like it,
JOBS-I-am. I do not like The Aqua Dock."
Opinion: Aquard, Gerard
Bagwin, Mac Musings, 2/28. "A back to basics OS is what we need,
not inconsistent icon sizes and photographic toolbar icons that
mean nothing."
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