The cool thing isn't so much os9map (yes it's cool) , but the fact that the data wasn't locked behind some wall and they were able to do whatever they wanted with it. There are a lot of cool ideas out there that are thwarted because the data is just locked away behind something only a very limited web gui can access, and you are at the mercy of people who's greatest ideas are ways to make the most horrible money extracting experience they can.
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#12Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
Laptop wise: it's a PowerBook G4 1Ghz 15', Titanium model.
Desktop: PowerMac G4 Tower, MDD version.
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#13Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
Quite a lot. I remember my dad's SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram or some ludicrous figure, compared to my 8mb 486.
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#14Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
I believe from Apple officially it would be the dual 1.25ghz MDD G4. I had one new, and still have it running today!
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#15Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
Quite a lot. I remember my dad's SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram or some ludicrous figure, compared to my 8mb 486.
>SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram
Probably an SE/30; vastly different internally than the original 68000 SE, more like a MacⅡx wearing a classic Mac shell. Great machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE/30
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#1616 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.
Wow. As a comparison, I just opened a new Google Maps tab in Chrome.
According to the Chrome Task Manager, the tab alone uses 433mb RAM and 34mb GPU memory footprint after first load.
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#17Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
My OS 9 battlestation is a G4 tower (Digital Audio) with a Sonnet dual 1.6GHz upgrade, 1.5GB RAM and a nvidia GeForce4 Ti which is one of the best OS 9 graphics cards available.
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#18I was hoping this article had something to do with Microware OS-9, but it doesn't.
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#19I'll be trying this out on my 500Mhz Powerbook Pismo running 9.2 tonight!
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#20Wait but why isn’t it an Electron app? I thought visual apps like this required at least 1-2GB of RAM to run. How can it possibly only need 16MB?! Must be vaporware.