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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by wlesieutre on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:22PM (#37230766)
Better than OS 9 and Flash when it would bring down the whole system!
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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by Grazester on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:46AM (#37235775)
Pre OSX Macs I found to be more unstable than Win95 osr2. Apple really needed OSX!
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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by wlesieutre on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:53AM (#37235893)
Mostly thanks to flash!

Even in OS X it was still a bad plugin, one of Snow Leopard's headline features was that plugins were moved to separate processes so that Safari could keep running instead of bringing down the whole browser when a plugin had a problem.

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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by elondaits on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:16AM (#37236285)
If memory serves me right, that was one of the big raisons d'etre for Chrome (released in 2008)... so Snow Leopard (2009) was catching up with it more than solving a Mac specific issue. But yes, back then the big big plugin was Flash, and its security and performance left a lot to be desired (in all platforms).
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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by Grazester on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:14AM (#37236251)
I wasn't even using flash. It was Photoshop. When this bogged down from switching between applications it would just shit the bed.
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