While what you said is true (MacOS was really unstable in these tumultuous years), this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.
> this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.
"Very pretty but can't do much" was a general take on the Mac OS cube of the day.
The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.
We had one to run FrameMaker on, but beyond type-setting (& fonts), it was a shiny thing which was treated like a sunday sports car.
Where I was, the Tex user group is what eventually materialized into a Linux User group and there was simultaneously love for the screen, rendering and fonts for the Mac, but near hatred at having to use it to professionally typeset things.
Math publications quickly jumped ship out of Adobe due to OS 9, but very few came back to the OS X versions until years later when Apple started making really good laptops with fast hardware.
> The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.
The G4 Cube had an (empty) standard mount and power connector for an optional fan.
gopalv|1 year ago
"Very pretty but can't do much" was a general take on the Mac OS cube of the day.
The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.
We had one to run FrameMaker on, but beyond type-setting (& fonts), it was a shiny thing which was treated like a sunday sports car.
Where I was, the Tex user group is what eventually materialized into a Linux User group and there was simultaneously love for the screen, rendering and fonts for the Mac, but near hatred at having to use it to professionally typeset things.
Math publications quickly jumped ship out of Adobe due to OS 9, but very few came back to the OS X versions until years later when Apple started making really good laptops with fast hardware.
bangonkeyboard|1 year ago
The G4 Cube had an (empty) standard mount and power connector for an optional fan.