I work in DOS for a day (2014)

Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014) by pavlov on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:20PM (#27752344)

Mac OS 9 is probably the weirdest evolution of 1980s single-task computing into something you could still use as a daily driver.

It was kept alive by two entirely disparate user groups: the iMac crowd who only used a browser (or the AOL client), and professional designer users who spent the entire day in Avid (or Pro Tools or After Effects or QuarkXPress or Photoshop).

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Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014) by classichasclass on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:23PM (#27753123)

Yes, but Mac OS 9 (and any MultiFinder version of the classic Mac OS) at least presented the illusion of multitasking. And it did multitask, as long as the apps cooperated and handed off to each other, and an extension didn't go bang or smash into another one, and ...

But, jokes aside, I still got a lot of work done in Mac OS 9 back in the day, so it wasn't nearly that dire even if it was best not to peek under the hood.

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Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014) by mattl on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:22PM (#27753119)

You'd be surprised how much you can get done with Mac OS 9 with Classzilla.

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