iindigo3d.com— Apple and Mac OS have changed quite a bit throughout the years - Mac OS is now 21 years old! Here?s a quick look at how much it has changed.
Dec 3, 2006View in Crawl 4
I wonder whether some of you windows evangelists don't have a little spittle in the corner of your mouth when you do this red-faced thing. Shut up with the zealotry - you give yourself away. Enjoy the development of something good: something that made your working life tenable; because without it you'd have no competition to encourage your god to make your experience that much better.
I used MS-DOS and Windows exclusively up until about 2001 when I started trying out Linux distros. I knew people that had Macs and loved them, but I had never used one more than a few minutes at a time. I was curious, but not that interested since it didn't seem all that exceptional. Mac OS X changed all that for me. As soon as I heard it was BSD underneath then Apple really had my attention. After making some friends in my comp sci classes who were Mac users I started using their machines and got really curious about OS X. A year later I bought a Mac mini, which lead to an AirPort Express and an iPod (when 5G iPods came out), and now a MacBook. I still use Linux, but OS X and the great apps available for it give me the best desktop experience I've had on any OS.What I hear about pre-OS X days makes me think it was a similar experience to Windows 95 and 98... terrible, with at least one crash a day.
KrocCamen is right. Windows 98 was a real bitch, so was NT for that matter. As savvy of a computer user as I was when we had 98, it crashed like none other. That said, we had plenty of issues starting with OS 7 when we first got our mac in 1991 (1992?).... This whole thing was a trip down memory lane. I remember how much better each mac OS got than the orginal version. We used Mac OS all the way through OS8 before getting a PC, and this year I bought myself a Mac with OS X Tiger. Couldn't be happier!
I have a Win98 machine that reboots once a year when we have power failure for more than 2 days during winter storms. It is connected to a 100 thousand dollar HPLC machine.When Windows BSODs you have C-A-D butttons or reboot switch.When OS 8 brain farts you have to pull the electric plug for the computer.
That's just it, I'm not saying that they should have changed it, but most things do change over time. Maybe they could have made it a few pixels bigger, or smaller, or something. It's not the same as it's always been, it's EXACTLY the same. They could have also experimented with a white cursor with a black outline, or something.
flag564Dec 3, 2006
21 years of screenshots?Why does anyone care about this?Some of you just blindly digg anything.
diskgrinderDec 3, 2006
I wonder whether some of you windows evangelists don't have a little spittle in the corner of your mouth when you do this red-faced thing. Shut up with the zealotry - you give yourself away. Enjoy the development of something good: something that made your working life tenable; because without it you'd have no competition to encourage your god to make your experience that much better.
decoherenceDec 3, 2006
for those who want to see how "OS X" looked before Apple got it's hands on it,<a class="user" href="http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/OpenStep/screenShots/OPENSTEP-Desktop.jpg">http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/OpenStep/screenShots/OPENSTEP-Desktop.jpg</a>
moetDec 4, 2006
Jeez you would of thought having all that time they could of made a better player than Quicktime. Wht a junk player
nofxjunkeeDec 4, 2006
I used MS-DOS and Windows exclusively up until about 2001 when I started trying out Linux distros. I knew people that had Macs and loved them, but I had never used one more than a few minutes at a time. I was curious, but not that interested since it didn't seem all that exceptional. Mac OS X changed all that for me. As soon as I heard it was BSD underneath then Apple really had my attention. After making some friends in my comp sci classes who were Mac users I started using their machines and got really curious about OS X. A year later I bought a Mac mini, which lead to an AirPort Express and an iPod (when 5G iPods came out), and now a MacBook. I still use Linux, but OS X and the great apps available for it give me the best desktop experience I've had on any OS.What I hear about pre-OS X days makes me think it was a similar experience to Windows 95 and 98... terrible, with at least one crash a day.
zakool21Dec 4, 2006
KrocCamen is right. Windows 98 was a real bitch, so was NT for that matter. As savvy of a computer user as I was when we had 98, it crashed like none other. That said, we had plenty of issues starting with OS 7 when we first got our mac in 1991 (1992?).... This whole thing was a trip down memory lane. I remember how much better each mac OS got than the orginal version. We used Mac OS all the way through OS8 before getting a PC, and this year I bought myself a Mac with OS X Tiger. Couldn't be happier!
iq70Dec 4, 2006
I have a Win98 machine that reboots once a year when we have power failure for more than 2 days during winter storms. It is connected to a 100 thousand dollar HPLC machine.When Windows BSODs you have C-A-D butttons or reboot switch.When OS 8 brain farts you have to pull the electric plug for the computer.
iindigoDec 4, 2006
Owner of the website here... and damn, I wasn't prepared for being posted on Digg... my site now suffers from the digg effect >_
mikecermDec 4, 2006
That's just it, I'm not saying that they should have changed it, but most things do change over time. Maybe they could have made it a few pixels bigger, or smaller, or something. It's not the same as it's always been, it's EXACTLY the same. They could have also experimented with a white cursor with a black outline, or something.