[muglo] Re: System stability (was: sound)

on 2/27/03 8:00 PM, Martin Albinger at max@xxxxxx wrote:

> Jim Laycock wrote:
>> I agree with Rich:  Mac OS 9.0.4 is the most stable OS I've ever
>> encountered.  I was crash-free on dozens of Macs for months...
> 
> 
> It sounds (to keep this on thread ;)  ) that you haven't used
> either 9.1 or 9.2 yet.
> 
> So having not used OS 9.1 or 9.2 you can definitely say that 9.04
> is more stable?
> 
> Not having used Os 10 I'll say OS 9.2 is the most stable.
> 
> Let the OS fun begin ;)
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> P.S. when 8.1 came out I thought is was a great improvement over
> 7 and 8.6 was better still than 8.1

Martin,

I develop for and support 35 Macs daily, on OS's ranging from 7.5.5 to
9.2.2.
Applications range from the Microsoft Office suite, FileMaker, Quark Xpress,
PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Cumulus, and many others.
I also consult for dozens of other companies that have a far greater
diversity of OS's and applications.
In my view, the introduction of CarbonLib with MacOS 9.1 caused a host of
incompatibilies that were never fully resolved even with 9.2.2.
The OS's that I had the greatest long-term stability with (on dozens of
machines ranging from PPC 7200's to G3/300s) were 8.6 and 9.0.4
Personally, I have been using Mac OS X on my TiBook/500 for 18 months (and I
find that 10.2.x is in general less stable than 10.1.x -- despite the hype.)

-Jim

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