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points by tarsierscripter 2 days ago | 0 comments

It definitely was in the MacOS 9 days. That OS was a joy to use. 3rd party Mac apps were incredible too.

You can run a vintage Mac today with a BlueSCSI and a 32GB microSD card and get a computing experience far snappier than any modern hardware.

[–] pjmlp 2 days ago

You mean the OS they failed to find a replacement for and almost went bankrupt, had it not been for the NeXT reverse acquisition?

[–] tarsierscripter 1 day ago

Yes, that OS. There is more to an OS than technology. Mac OS X was the technological solution they needed, but it has ALWAYS been an inferior UI. Many hundreds of thousands of words have been written on this.

If you're at all curious, you can start here [1] with John Siracusa's famous piece on the Finder.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

[–] pjmlp 1 day ago

I am into computers since 1986, and the first Mac I touched was in 1994.

Yes, I remember that article, doesn't mean everyone likes spatial Finder abilities.

[–] tarsierscripter 1 day ago

Speak for yourself, then. I can tell you countless people used to find computers easy to use when they had Macs in the 90s. Now they find computers baffling and want essentially nothing to do with them.