In preparation for the U.S. Presidential election, the probes are slowing to allow for either redeployment to a post-cold war posture by the Bush administration, or possible recall by a Kerry administration. At any rate, their movements will clearly be uffected. DUH.
Surely that is the latest version of MacOS which could have debuted the "Desktop Database".
I know it was there in System 7, which still puts us in the early nineties, I think.
Not sure of the year--not sure of the System version--not sure whether it was a database or a Metadata whoozywhatsis. But I am very sure that I never had my operating system complain that "somebody must have (gasp!) *moved* a file!".
What strikes me here is not the ease with which you could find a file (it was not a sure thing), but the rarity in which you had mis-placed one. Even the most elderly Macs you might come across kept pretty tight track of what was going on in the FS.
A resourceful* Mac user could assign one of eight or ten categories to a file, which would then show up COLOR-CODED in your SORTABLE display. Note that these were not, however, fields--just one-shot categories. If you wished to use them as fields, great, but you had a total of eight (or ten) values.
I was just surprised not to see it mentioned here yet. Nevermind OSX. If I could have the MacOS 9 interface (same as System 7, basically) on top of something POSIX, well, then we'd be talking. And yes, I would use my desktop database to find things impossible in other pricey consumer-oriented OSs.
: Glad I do not live in the USA. Seriously you guys should take a step back and see how things work anyway else in the world (not counting war zones and third world countries)::
Please recall that the United States is a country of people who saw how things were somewhere else and didn't like it.
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Straight.
If I could, I would. But... uppu-moddo-pointoh ga arimasen.
Gomen, ne?
Point: Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean there isn't a shred of truth in it.
How can you say these two things is the same breath?
In preparation for the U.S. Presidential election, the probes are slowing to allow for either redeployment to a post-cold war posture by the Bush administration, or possible recall by a Kerry administration. At any rate, their movements will clearly be uffected. DUH.
I know it was there in System 7, which still puts us in the early nineties, I think. Not sure of the year--not sure of the System version--not sure whether it was a database or a Metadata whoozywhatsis. But I am very sure that I never had my operating system complain that "somebody must have (gasp!) *moved* a file!".
What strikes me here is not the ease with which you could find a file (it was not a sure thing), but the rarity in which you had mis-placed one. Even the most elderly Macs you might come across kept pretty tight track of what was going on in the FS.
A resourceful* Mac user could assign one of eight or ten categories to a file, which would then show up COLOR-CODED in your SORTABLE display. Note that these were not, however, fields--just one-shot categories. If you wished to use them as fields, great, but you had a total of eight (or ten) values.
I was just surprised not to see it mentioned here yet. Nevermind OSX. If I could have the MacOS 9 interface (same as System 7, basically) on top of something POSIX, well, then we'd be talking. And yes, I would use my desktop database to find things impossible in other pricey consumer-oriented OSs.
* sorry bout that
: Glad I do not live in the USA. Seriously you guys should take a step back and see how things work anyway else in the world (not counting war zones and third world countries) ::
Please recall that the United States is a country of people who saw how things were somewhere else and didn't like it.