Five Years of Mac OS X

On 24 Mar 2006, at 22:50 , johnbaxterlistsmac.com wrote:
> March 24, 2001 saw the release of Mac OS X, and the installation
> thereof on the G4 dual 533 machine which sits to my left as I type
> this. (I have my tee shirt around here someplace.)

Hmm... I know I "celebrated" OS X's 5th birthday last fall. I guess
we are not counting the Public Beta period?

April 7th is my 5th anniversary for first installing OS X as my day-
to-day OS. I was planning on holding out at least until the first
update, but I caved 9 days early.

--
This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian
shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we
in it shall be remember'd;

On Mar 25, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Google Kreme wrote:

> Hmm... I know I "celebrated" OS X's 5th birthday last fall. I guess
> we are not counting the Public Beta period?

I'm not. You may of course. I *almost* bought a Cube on which to
run the beta, but another expense came up and saved me.

   --John

On Mar 25, 2006, at 12:50 AM, johnbaxterlistsmac.com wrote:
> John Siracusa's piece at Ars Technica seems worth a read (I've only
> skimmed so far). Those of you who wish for the good old days of Mac
> OS 9 and earlier won't much like it.
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars>

There's a very interesting perspective on Jobs' OS X complete rebuild
strategy vs. what could be a Widoze debacle in yesterday's NY Times,
"Windows Is So Slow, but Why?:"

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html

Marilyn (who doesn't miss multiple daily system level crashes in the
least)