> <flamebait>
> I also have this perverse fascination with Macintosh hardware. I
> don't like it. I keep wanting to like it, and accumulating more of it.
> MacOS 9.1 is the second poorest excuse for an OS I've ever seen.
Classic MacOS is okay (as compared to OS X, which is very beautiful). One
advantage of being a marginalised platform is that while we get less software
in general, that also means we get less *crap* software. So, even though
classic MacOS is cooperatively multitasking and has a perfectly potty memory
allocation and management scheme, it tends to crash less than Windows simply
because we're not shoveling (as much) badly written software in it.
9.x is light-years improved over the old System 7 though. There are
exactly five MacOSes worth using: 6.0.8, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1 and 10.1.x and up.
(Note that Apple rarely gets it right the first time :-) All the others
stink for one reason or another.
Have you tried A/UX? Note to those who asked: I got it working! Mail me
for details if you want the steps I took (YMMV).
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