Classic Mac OS Nostalgia
Users reminisce about classic Mac OS (System 7 to 9), its appealing UI aesthetics, simplicity, and colorful design from the 80s-90s era, while noting drawbacks like instability from lacking memory protection and preemptive multitasking, often comparing it to modern macOS.
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I miss the classic Mac OS. From time to time I turn on one of my classic Macs and use Mac OS 8 or 9 for a while, going down memory lane. While the classic Mac OS was unstable due to its lack of both memory protection and preemptive multitasking, there's a certain simplicity to the interface, as well as a near-universal adherence to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines by most applications, that is unfortunately missing in today's desktop computing environments. Modern GUI software h
Wow this is lovely! Really reminds me of the Mac apps from the power PC era.
maybe, but I think not as bad as MacOS "classic" 8.1 and 9 that came before it!
I recall that this sort of stuff was very prevalent on the Mac before OS X.
"Couple of decades ago" could mean Classic MacOS, which is indeed mostly unusable without a mouse
I honestly miss the classic Macs of the 80s and 90s. Sure they had their bad points. The operating system let badly-behaved applications stomp all over the address space and crash the machine, and preference files (as well as the desktop database) got corrupted frequently.But they were so easy to use! The operating system was so simple you as one person could understand the whole thing. There weren’t countless background processes running all the time. You knew exactly which applications were
I'm pretty sure you must mean "OS X from the mid-2000s" — look at screenshots of System 7 for comparison…
Something to do with the original macintosh, iirc.
I've just bought an old PowerBook G4 precisely so that it could boot Mac OS 9 and I could install some old programs to play with. As I switched it on to see if it's OK, I was impressed by how quickly it started up its current Mac OS 10.4.I still think classic Mac OS was a truly gem of UI and UX and things just went downhill from there :)
I grew up on Macs from the System 7 to Mac OS 9 era, so this was a bit of nostalgia for me. I do think the OS was outdated even for its time. Memory protection could be found in Windows NT, OS/2 and every Unix-like OS to my knowledge. Meanwhile, Mac OS 9 could be segfaulted by a single failure to free memory in a third-party application. Nostalgia is not enough to make you look back on that fondly.As an aside, those grey rectangles may be ugly to some but at least you had themes [1]. 15