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System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Post by mietek »

a4isms wrote: post #63
k310 wrote: post #11

> It is also my opinion Mac OS 9.2.2 is the greatest OS, and Mac OS, ever, but not everything that is possible in earlier Mac OS versions is possible in Mac OS 9.2.2. I had fun with hypercard on MacOS 9. At work, even. The boss was into rapid prototyping, and I cooked up some damn productive stacks in a hurry. It runs on the Cube and under OS 9 emulation on the new stuff. Hypercard scripters did cool things that most…

Back when Java was the NextBigLanguage, we built Java development tools at KL Group/Sitraka (now a part of Quest). For version 2 of the suite of tools, we were getting rid of the nerdy configuration text file and planned on shipping a configuration wizard (yes, we called them wizards while fondling the onions we tied to our belts). I was the Program Manager, and as usual we were very tightly constrained for time, and…

Thank you for writing down this memory. It would fit perfectly on https://folklore.org but unfortunately it seems that the site is no longer accepting new memories.

Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Post by deaddodo »

anthk wrote: post #107
deaddodo wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To be clear, Win98 was a garbage fire of an OS (when it came to stability); which makes it so much worse that Mac OS 8 and 9 were so bad .

WIn 98SE and Mac OS 9 were on par. Ditto with System 7.5.3 and Windows 95 OSR2.

I disagree, and gave the technical reasons. So now we're just going into opinion, which I'm not interested in.

Either way, you're welcome to believe what you like.

Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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WoodenChair wrote: post #74

Very related but self promotional—I have a hobby business selling restored Mac mini G4s. I clean all of them internally, upgrade them with 128 GB SSDs, max them out at 1 GB of RAM, put a new clock battery in, and pre-install the Mac OS 9 Lives hacked version of Mac OS 9 that runs on them. You can buy one from me here: https://os9.shop I don't think I'll start pre-installing System 7 since most of my customers are usi…

> My customers have included a lot of real businesses running legacy software who want the fastest, least intrusive, and least energy intensive Mac OS 9 desktop machine they can buy. I've sold to dentists, veterinarians, museums, and auto repair stores. You'd be amazed how many people are running Classic Mac software in 2025.

Is there any software that only runs on System 7, and not 9.2.2?

Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Post by WoodenChair »

TMWNN wrote: post #113
WoodenChair wrote: post #74

Very related but self promotional—I have a hobby business selling restored Mac mini G4s. I clean all of them internally, upgrade them with 128 GB SSDs, max them out at 1 GB of RAM, put a new clock battery in, and pre-install the Mac OS 9 Lives hacked version of Mac OS 9 that runs on them. You can buy one from me here: https://os9.shop I don't think I'll start pre-installing System 7 since most of my customers are usi…

> My customers have included a lot of real businesses running legacy software who want the fastest, least intrusive, and least energy intensive Mac OS 9 desktop machine they can buy. I've sold to dentists, veterinarians, museums, and auto repair stores. You'd be amazed how many people are running Classic Mac software in 2025. Is there any software that only runs on System 7, and not 9.2.2?

Yes, but it's very uncommon for it to still be in use beyond hobbyists.

Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Post by TMWNN »

WoodenChair wrote: post #114
TMWNN wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My customers have included a lot of real businesses running legacy software who want the fastest, least intrusive, and least energy intensive Mac OS 9 desktop machine they can buy. I've sold to dentists, veterinarians, museums, and auto repair stores. You'd be amazed how many people are running Classic Mac software in 2025. Is there any software that only runs on System 7, and not 9.2.2?

Yes, but it's very uncommon for it to still be in use beyond hobbyists.

Are there a lot of people still running legacy FileMaker setups?

Re: System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

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Post by WoodenChair »

TMWNN wrote: post #115
WoodenChair wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it's very uncommon for it to still be in use beyond hobbyists.

Are there a lot of people still running legacy FileMaker setups?

Yes, but several Filemaker versions run under Mac OS 9 so there's no reason to go back to System 7.
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