Here is the e-mail I sent to this guy...It pretty much sums up my rants:
"After seeing Mac OS X and seeing Apple repeat its 1997 strategy, I predict a mass exodus of Mac users as a result of the arrogant and irresponsible policy Apple has created for Mac OS X. Poor backward compatibility for old apps. Requiring hundreds of dollars of memory upgrades and possibly even processor upgrades. Added to the insult of having to pay to beta test."
So why then has Apple already sold 80,000 copies of Mac OS X Beta by last Monday, September 18th? What is it that you suggest Apple do to move on to a modern operating system while still maintaining speedy backward compatibility? Win 95,98, and 2000 all have a DOS underlying, what's wrong with having a Mac OS 9 underlying as well?
Secondly, this is a beta. There is still code to be optimized. I'm sure that your Win 95 machine running on a 386/20 with 8mb does not run very responsively. Obviously, a 386/20 with 8mb of RAM is below the sys requirements that MSFT released for Win 95, and the same thing can be done for Mac OS X. You CAN run Mac OS X on your 300mhz/604 it's just not recommended or supported. If you called up Microsoft complaining about Windows 95 running on your 386/20 do you think they'd care? No because it was below the min. system requirements.
Hey guys, Justin Hilliard here from HolyMac.com... The problem was a little bit too much traffic and the server shut itself down. Everything is back up, and you can check it out now. Enjoy!! -Justin Hilliard jhilliard@holymac.com
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Here is the e-mail I sent to this guy...It pretty much sums up my rants:
"After seeing Mac OS X and seeing Apple repeat its 1997 strategy, I predict a mass exodus of Mac users as a result of the arrogant and irresponsible policy Apple has created for Mac OS X. Poor backward compatibility for old apps. Requiring hundreds of dollars of memory upgrades and possibly even processor upgrades. Added to the insult of having to pay to beta test."
So why then has Apple already sold 80,000 copies of Mac OS X Beta by last Monday, September 18th? What is it that you suggest Apple do to move on to a modern operating system while still maintaining speedy backward compatibility? Win 95,98, and 2000 all have a DOS underlying, what's wrong with having a Mac OS 9 underlying as well?
Secondly, this is a beta. There is still code to be optimized. I'm sure that your Win 95 machine running on a 386/20 with 8mb does not run very responsively. Obviously, a 386/20 with 8mb of RAM is below the sys requirements that MSFT released for Win 95, and the same thing can be done for Mac OS X. You CAN run Mac OS X on your 300mhz/604 it's just not recommended or supported. If you called up Microsoft complaining about Windows 95 running on your 386/20 do you think they'd care? No because it was below the min. system requirements.
Thanks for your time.
Hey guys, Justin Hilliard here from HolyMac.com... The problem was a little bit too much traffic and the server shut itself down. Everything is back up, and you can check it out now. Enjoy!! -Justin Hilliard jhilliard@holymac.com