You've heard of those now that OSX has them right? They're not useless overhead anymore now that apple has them? Did you like single apps crashing the whole system?
OS6 did have great 68K processor emulation technology. Too bad they were using emulation to run their file system and network stack.
I started on Apples, it truly hurt seeing the joke the company became under the suger water salesman.
Was glad to see Jobs back. Someone internal had to kick the company in the butt. Like only Nixon could go to China, Only Jobs could get apples OS out of the early 80s.
Have you read anything about the multi year effort to ship OS8? (not the version that finally shipped as OS8). OS8 was supposed to be what OSX became.
Ease of use. As for Preemptive multitasking, neither system had it. It only had co-operative multitasking. The only Operating System with Premptive Multitasking was Amiga OS.
In 1990 I was running an Amiga... and working on both Macs and PCs.
Single Apps crashed BOTH Macs and Windows... regularly.
OS6 did have great 68K processor emulation technology. Too bad they were using emulation to run their file system and network stack.
What are you talking about? The old original Mac OS was 68K native through OS 6... emulation was only required after it became PowerPC native after OS 7 was introduced.
I agree about the sugar water salesman...