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teeeeeegz | 3 years ago

What was the biggest difference from a consumer perspective when moving from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X?

I was too young to remember, but do recall the Win 98/ME → XP upgrade being a huge headache, and was wondering whether people faced similar teething issues.

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goosedragons|3 years ago

A lot. Much bigger interface differences than 98 to XP, many programs required "Classic" mode to run essentially a Mac OS 9 VM. Some programs like games ran like arse in Classic mode so you had to dual boot to get decent performance. Plus the first several Mac OS X versions weren't exactly quick on hardware designed with classic Mac OS in mind like the iMac G3. But it looked a lot better and wouldn't crash all the time.

LoganDark|3 years ago

Mac OS 9 and earlier were fully custom whereas Mac OS X is UNIX based on Darwin (a BSD). Some versions of OS X are fully UNIX-certified.