[P1] load OS X?

[don hinkle]

Thanks to you and to Bill Seilnacht for your responses. I'm taking them
both as gospel...so if anyone wants to quibble with either set of
conclusions, I hope you'll register in pretty soon because I'm gonna
commit and load Jaguar (ok, Chas. WITH Classic) as soon as I back up my
HD and run TechTools and DiskWarrior.
	Woops, Charles. If I load Jag with Classic, do I need to do anything to
my present 9.2.2 System setup?
	And does anyone know if the firmware thing could be an issue???
	Yes, Charlies, I am being clever, because I've seen too many messages
from people who weren't and who suffered. I'm not into pain or
suffering, believe firmly in preparedness.

-don

Charles Martin wrote:
> 
> > From: don hinkle <donhinkle at att.net>
> >   I'm thinking, going into my 3rd year, that I'd like to have access to
> > Jaguar occasionally, tho still will mostly boot into 9 (don't want to
> > slow things down by running certain apps in Classic).
> 
> Where DO people get the idea that Classic is slower than OS 9?
> 
> I just did a series of timings, things like starting up; opening
> Photoshop 4 and running filters; opening Quark 5 and complex documents;
> opening MS Word 2001.
> 
> In every single case without exception, Classic was faster than "real"
> OS 9. Sometimes quite significantly faster. This is 10.2.6, latest
> everything we are talking about -- haven't even explored what Classic
> under Panther would be like.
> 
> It's been my finding that people think OS 9 is faster than Classic
> because of a few tangential things (like opening menus and other Finder
> ops) that OS 9 still does a bit faster. But that's not where you do
> your work, and any head-to-head of productivity with people on OS X and
> OS 9 is going to end with OS X the winner, I guarantee it.
> 
> There are some situations (still) where working in OS 9 (not Classic)
> is a good idea. Certain older and exotic printers and scanners perform
> better. Certain older programs perform faster. There are a handful of
> apps that I know of (nothing major) that refuse to run in Classic. So
> I'm not saying OS 9 is junk.
> 
> I'm just saying that this myth of slowness in Classic was put to bed
> rather firmly when Jaguar came out.
> 
> >       Is it ok for me just to load Jaguar on at this point (after a backup
> > of
> > course)? Or do I need to take precautions?
> >
> 
> You make it sound like you're handling live bacteria.
> 
> The only "precaution" I would suggest is that you download and remember
> to use Onyx or Cocktail once OS X is installed, and thereafter use em
> about once a month.
> 
> _Chas_
> 
> That the PC world would doggedly stick to a dull, unimaginative,
> clinical term like 'IEEE 1394' (notice how it just rolls off the tongue
> -- NOT) for the sole purpose of *saving a few pennies* over using an
> imaginative, exciting, visually-stimulating term like 'FireWire' tells
> you EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the PC world and that whole
> industry-wide mindset.
> 
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