Apple Special Event 1999-The Mac OS 9 Introduction (Pt.2)

[GordonGraphic86]

encrypt was really made for men to hide their porn from their wives and girlfriends

[FromAGeek]

wheres steve Jobs!? rip

[lgGgdeluxe]

The MAC OS 9 is better and faster than Windows VISTA!

[tytippy2]

No part three?

[winfr34k]

What happened to the rest?

[maxwillson]

Man this is some high tech shit! Ah just kidding. I wasn't a big fan of the Mac OS 9, it froze too much. But Mac OSX is the best! It never slows down!!!!!

But I do miss playing Doom sometimes.

[MarkPMus]

Can you do Voice Log-in in Mac OS X?

[stupidrandom101]

@haku12ful shut the fuck up nobody cares because Mac OS X is superior to Windows, windows copied Mac OS X so yeah shut the fuck up

[drygnfyre]

@stupidrandom101 Microsoft copied from Apple and Apple copied from Microsoft. Bot copied from Linux, and Linux copied from both. That's how the industry works. Steve Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." He was describing the industry, how the market leaders are not always the innovators but rather the ones who take the best ideas and put them into usable products. In the end, it's the consumers who win, because they get better products at cheaper prices.

[stupidrandom101]

@drygnfyre what i was stating is he need to stop spamming

[51m50n]

Anyway, every useful feature that appeared in Mac System / Mac OS / Mac OS X appeared magically about a year later (or more) in Windows :D Examples? Document-Centric Desktop and file browsing (Windows 95(, mulitple users and nice logon screen (XP), auto-update, Gadgets, even the superbar in Windows 7 is an obvious rop-off of OS X Dock :D OK, let's call it "inspiration", sounds less provoking, ain't it? :D

[haku12ful]

Windows7 is the most useful operating-system i've truly ever used. I dled it 100 % free from Windows7FreeDLXcom (replace X with . ) and have not gotten issues!

[Nutz320]

nickloss: it still is based on DOS, that's why if you move a file, any shortcuts to the file won't work, but with OS X it will still open. In Windows, a shortcut refers to the directory of a file, but in OS X, it refers to the actual file.

[sundhaug92]

@Nutz320 It isn't actually based on DOS, modern Windows is based on Windows NT, 64-bit Windows can't even run DOS/Win16 programs because it doesn't have NTVDM

[Nutz320]

@sundhaug92 whatever it's based on, there's still a little bit of DOS present, and it will take too much of a rewrite to actually take that away. And either way, in Windows, moving a file will render its shortcuts unusable, but not in OS X.

[drygnfyre]

@Nutz320 There is no MS-DOS at all in Windows NT. The Command Prompt in NT releases looks similar to DOS but is not the same. The last consumer Windows released based on MS-DOS was Windows ME in 2000. Windows XP onward has brought NT to the consumer level.

[Nutz320]

@drygnfyre It might not be BASED on DOS. Forget I said that LOL. Basically, it refers to files as directories rather than directly, which means if you move the original file, the shortcut doesn't work. On System 8(maybe 7), you can move the original to another drive, even a network drive and the alias still works.

[wendileona]

Those 15 inch Studio Displays were hot. I owned one, loved that monitor, I still would buy one as my CS palettes and Bridge image selection window.

[MrPrancinghorse]

voice password in osx would be cool!

[DeltaPhi79]

Mycatisbigfoot: Simple typo man.

[bl0ckeduser]

Nowadays Sherlock 2 and the Keychain are seldom used by Mac OS 9 users

[DeltaPhi79]

juanlmesl: Oh by the way. To you. Rid everyone of yourself if you take offense at such a simple comment.

[gunpder94]

Sherlock 2 may be "advanced" but it looks B-o-r-i-n-g to me...

Mac OS X is the best.

[MarkPMus]

Sherlock was available in OSX until Leopard. The thing is, Mac OS 9 appeared at least 2 years before XP, and here we have multiple log ins, auto update etc... Windows updating was a pain before XP SP2. Mac OS just works without hassle. Anyone whoever tried to update Office Mac 2008 will know that that is just another area where Microsoft just doesn't work!

[bl0ckeduser]

Mac OS 9, although it is a cool OS, doesn't have protected memory and therefore can be brought down by a single program crashing. Also, Windows 2000, the Microsoft OS of that era can run more new apps than Mac OS 9

[drygnfyre]

@MarkPMus I disagree. Windows Update debuted in Windows 98 (which came out before Mac OS 9) and was quite easy to use. It wasn't quite as automated as it is today, but the basic idea was the same. Also, multiple accounts was nothing new, it goes way back to the early Unix days of the 1970s.

And frankly, I have no idea what you're talking about in regards to MS Office '08... I can have it check for updates, if one is available, I just tell it to download and I'm done...

[MarkPMus]

@drygnfyre Re-multiple accounts: I mean consumer OS. I appreciate nothing is ever new. I eventually managed to get Office Mac 2008 to update, but not without a lot of help. Admittedly it was MS who were very quick in getting back to me. But it didn't work right out of the box, and it was a known issue. Windows updating (up to XP SP2) was never as slick as Mac OSX which I've used since Tiger. They made OS9 look much more painless than that in Win 98 but I never used OS9 so can't really say.

[drygnfyre]

@MarkPMus Having used Windows since 3.1 and Mac OS since the System 7 days, Windows actually had the edge. Protected memory, far more compatability, etc. However, both updating services were quite similar.

Mac OS X is so much better than the classic OS because it wasn't Apple's OS, but rather just NeXTstep (Steve Job's OS post-1985) with an Apple designed GUI.

[LanIost]

@MarkPMus: What about Windows NT of the day? It had that stuff from the beginning if I remember correctly.

Which is why businesses and such used it. I'm not dissing Mac OS 9. I used it.

[zenhypnotic]

@LanIost WinNt98 & 2000's implementation of autoupdate and search was DIRE. I know. I sat as a WinAdministrator at the time & and Apple System Admin.... we had 5 calls on average for windows for every 2.1 for apple, pro rata'd down to user base volume.

[bl0ckeduser]

Sherlock 2 evolved from the 'file search' menu item introduced c. 1988 and is very good at searching files

[juanlmesl]

i know like that voice keyword staff that sucks

[Jp8901]

do we have a voice login on mac os x?

[juanlmesl]

this is what i hate about new software they only highlight new

staff not the cool staff from the previews versions like voice logins ECT....

[mudkipNDS]

I just realized right now that the default wallpaper in Jaguar is a blue variation on the Quantum Foam wallpaper at 1:33

[weinerschnitzelboy]

me too

[wakka922201]

Wow.. These kind of features come in point/dot updates in Mac OS X.. Mac OS 9 didn't introduce many new features. Why didn't the voice login make it to Mac OS X? Did it make it to release on OS 9?

[raphael2000]

Nothing to miss! OS 9 was slow and jerky even on (then) modern machines (iMac G3 333MHz),

Now I can install OS X on 4 year old G4 and it works silky smooth.

[jlacus]

Thats the way apple works. they build on the past so you dont lose value on your products. unlike pc's....

[RABBIDGamfan]

Actually, I have found Mac OS 9 to be very fast and responsive on similar hardware (500 Mhz Power Mac G4 Sawtooth). It has pretty touchy stability, though.

[orgthingy]

more like internet features not mac features :P

[juanlmesl]

its supose to be the best mac interner os ever thats what they mean

[ronteras]

I miss Mac OS 9.  but I love OSX.

[TechVideos2566]

It's up now!

[TechVideos2566]

It doesn't matter what system you use. Look at your comment rating LOL motherf*cker.

[MacOsX26]

Theres a couple of features which arent in leopard.

[drygnfyre]

Which ones? Nearly all of the features in OS 9 are still in OS X, but have either been renamed or now function differently. For example, you can no longer encrypt single files in OS X, but you can encrypt your entire hard drive instead, which is arguably more secure.

[ndfootballch]

or you can throw a few items in an encrypted DMG

[WB2Colorado]

I remember that this was apple's "Mac OS X" back then, that was the biggest upgrade to OS 8.6 out there.

[Dojan5]

Usually i thought that Mac OS 9 was in black and white XD

[orgthingy]

lol, this isnt TV.. this is A COMPUTER :P

[Dojan5]

Yupp, though I thought that OS 9 was REALLY old, like, older than 20 years old. And the Lisa was in black and white....

And regarding it isn't tv. I know, IT IS SOO MUCH BETTER! No commercial breaks! HA! :D

[creativeatheart]

too bad we're in leopard, which will take microsofto another 6 years to catch up with, oh by the way, os x is based on the 2001 unix kernal. Windows is based on DOS, which was made in 1978. Dont believe me, open Command Prompt, thats the DOS base system.

[nickloss]

windows hasnt been based on dos since windows me, the command prompt your seeing is an dos emulator

[qqcolaman]

eesh, I don't know about that... you might want to check out all the happy people that have switched from PC to Mac... The number "pwns" the number of happy people who have switched from Mac to PC, if there are any.

[trevorlsciact]

I hated all of the classic Mac OS versions (well beside the ones in the 80's since they WERE ahead of everything else) but the 90's sucked for apple computers (love OS X tho!)

[19cohen]

hahaha!what kind of revolution.plz list them.

[MyJelleo]

There's not enough room to list them all. But the two things that are better on OSX than Windows is SECURITY and STABILITY.

[19cohen]

i cant believe it.How come a customer can buy this .for what?some features?.once the hacker opens key chain u will be fuckd up.Searching on internet?power of OS?.OS X is a new design.the same thing.

[grampben]

the classic mac os and mac os x are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! how about the UNIX base on os x? for starters.

[Coolmatt49]

Mac OS 9 is OKAY; however, Mac OS X was a HUGE leap from OS 9. If Apple still kept an interface with OS 9 (no Dock, visual updates, etc.) it would fail in today's market.

Does anyone know how to use that Voice Recognition as a Password on Mac OS X? lol

[lupejl]

Yea... it'd be sooo cool to have that back in Leopard

[trevorlsciact]

It didn't make the transition :(

[Zestava]

I'm using Mac OS X Tiger

[utisoft]

Hmm, doesn't seem so good any more now Mac OS X is out... lol