Re: [MacPerl] looking at Mac OS X

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 02.38 -0500 1999.01.28, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
>8.5.x is Copland only in the most superficial cosmetic sense. The real
>promise of Copland was that of a *stable* OS, with a Mac look and feel. What
>we have in 8.5 is the same old crash-twice-a-day OS (if you do more than
>word processing in ClarisWorks) that we had in 7.x, but with a few more
>bells and whistles.
>
>Frankly, I'm very tired of having to re-boot (even with MacsBug installed)
>at least once a day if I do any sort of development work. If OS X either
>slips badly, or fails to deliver memory protection and PMT, I'll be looking
>elsewhere for an OS (e.g., LinuxPPC with SheepShaver).

A lot of people will as well.  I know I will, as will others on the list.

Note that I half expect Mac OS to crash a lot for developers (not that it
should, but that it will).  But I do not expect it to crash for file
servers, print servers, web servers, non-development users, etc., and in my
experience, it doesn't.  My PowerBook crashes a few times a week at best,
and my wife's iMac crashes only when she plays games that were written
under System 6.

My PowerMac 7100 (router / IRC client / localtalk bridge / RealAudio player
/ web browser / etc.) only crashes when I am trying out new software, or
when I run out of RAM.  It is very solid.  It crashes last night after I
noticed I had 26K free and tried to quit something.  To be sure, it was a
crash I shouldn't have had, but it was a rare crash for me.  That box,
running Mac OS 8.5.1 with 40MB of physical RAM, does quite a bit for me and
almost never crashes.

I have come to think frequent crashes in recent Mac OS versions are the
pretty much the exclusive domain of 1. developers and 2. people who don't
keep their machines clean and maintained well.

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