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Originally posted by downquark1
I'm sorry but perhaps they should have researched it before hand
I have to say that MAC OS 10.0 was really a public beta more than anything they shouldn't have charged for it.
Didn't they provide MAC OS 9 with it? That can use zip drives.
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I agree they shouldn't have charged for 10.0; it really was intended for developers/hardened beta geeks. It was a basic version of the OS with few add-ons, including the (some might say) surprising lack of support for various external storage devices.
Surprise at this approach is more common among the window$ slaves of the world who are used to M$'$ secretive approach to development. Personally I prefer Apple's more open approach. I have been using a Beta of their new Safari browser which, until final release v1 came out today, included a 'bug' button in the toolbar designed to allow users to report problems direct to Apple. I must've sent in dozens of URLs and descriptions of web pages that didn't work properly in various incarnations of the Beta. They all work fine now.
I am now using OSX 10.2.6 on a G3 iMac (450mhz) that originally shipped with OS 9.0.3. I bought in to OSX at 10.1.3 and got a free upgrade to 10.2 because I was within a 'qualifying period'. Provided Apple don't up the minimum recommended specs for using 10.3 I will probably pay for it when it comes out. New Mac OS releases tend to be full of genuinely innovative stuff that are worth having.
And yes, OSX 10.0 came with OS9 also installed, able to boot independently or run within OSX as the 'Classic' environment - a kind of OS9 emulator. 10.2.6 still has this option, although I use it increasingly rarely these days.
So, at no stage in development of OSX has any piece of hardware or software been rendered completely unuseable. Everything worked either in 10.0, Classic mode or booted into OS9.
EDIT - in answer of the criticism that Mac OS is less likely to run on an older machine than Windows is on an older PC, I can only appeal to the dozens of news stories that follow in the wake of any major upgrade to Windows. Even Watchdog waded in a while back. MS are notorious for eating up the power only new PCs can offer. My humble G3, however, is running the (currently) most up-to-date Apple OS, without any problems, yet is 4 years old and was merely midrange at the time I bought it.