[G4] Updating to Panther Last?

[sr ferenczy]

if you ignore meaningless numbers, and focus instead upon release 
dates, the OS 7-8 timeline really falls quite close to the os X 
timeline in regards to paid releases. (maybe apple just wants to keep 
os X around for a long while, thus they use all the 10.* combinations 
they can....

Oct 1991   7.0  paid
Oct 1992   7.1  paid
Sept 1994  7.5  paid
Jan 1997   7.6  paid
July 1997  8.0  paid
Oct 1998   8.5  paid
Oct 1999   9.0  paid
Mar 2001   10.0 paid (public beta)
Oct 2001   10.1 paid (many consider first "real" os x)
Aug 2002   10.2 paid
June 2003  10.3 paid

looks to me like apple has stayed pretty consistent in regards to paid 
updates, other than changing their numbering system....


sandor



On Dec 24, 2003, at 1:03 PM, CMS wrote:

> We should not have to buy, there stupid updates, and bug fixes, until
>
> e.g. Version ##
> 10.00 okay buy,
> 10.2 buy
> 10.5 buy
> 10.7 buy
> 11.00 Buy
>
> because,
> if we buy,
> 10.00
> 10.1
> 10.2
> 10.3
> 10.4
> 10.5
> 10.6
> 10.7
> 10.8
> 10.9
> 11.00
> Paying allot more than usually. ( Just skip a few upgrades... 10.3 to 
> 10.6 )
> Man that alot compare to those days, in OS 9
>
> 7.0
> 7.5
> 7.6
> 8.0
>
>
> Regards-
> Rick