Coming at it from a slightly different angle, well, a marketing angle I guess, when are Apple going to release OS XI, and how significant a change is it going to be over OS X? Obv…

Marketing, for sure. What arrived as Mac OS 8 was originally supposed to be 7.7. OS 8 was supposed to be the name for the next, built-from-the-ground-up, fully PPC-native OS. I thi…

At first the System and Finder developed very quickly, up to version 6. Updates were free, and noone really bothered about the version numbers. System 5 never actually existed - Sy…

Quote: Originally Posted by P ...Calling it OS "ten" but using roman numerals was a way to get the final X commonly associated with UNIX OSes without infringing on the UNIX trad…

P, thanks for that post, very interesting and informative, cheers.

IMHO, due to the Unix underpinnings, Apple is no longer chained to creating EVERYTHING for OS X. I know that Steve Jobs isn't going to make the same mistake twice with Apple's OS. …

Apple may decide on a new paradigm for the interface, but not a new operating system from scratch. It may do something like the "Public Square" concept for organizing and rely on h…

Quote: Originally Posted by P Right now OS X is not missing any big, vital features. OS 9 was missing several - preemptive multitasking and a modern memory model with protected …

Im looking at making my mac have an OS7 theme and also looking for themes that mimic apples clean grey professional apps UI, anyone able to help?

Poke around the GUI Customization forums. Also try searching them for "Apple Motion" or "Final Cut Pro" or "FCP". I think you'll find a lot of results. As for System 7, I haven'…

awhile back there was talk of a shake gui theme but I dont think anything became of it

OS7 theme found - http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/index_64.shtml Called VOID 2.0.

Sorry but OS 7 looked like this VOID is great but completely different!

there is the GershwinX project... OS8.5 - 9.2.2 http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/...ix2.3.1_lg.jpg Classic Platinum http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/...atinum2_lg.jpg Preve…

I have to remember to turn my Epson printer off before booting from the 8.5 CD. No way to turn AppleTalk off. Is this something I just have to accept and put up with? I ended up …

Since its a CD you have to just accept it. The Chooser Prefs that keep AppleTalk on are burned into the CD and cannot be changed. Sorry about that..

Is there a way to get Toast 3.5 to make a UDF formatted CD-R. I'm a DVD Author, and it sure would be useful to make a CD-R of a DVD project (the menu system at least) to test on h…

Use Adaptec Direct CD to mace UDF disks. It does this well.

True, but be aware of this... Based on my experiences, the version of "UDF Volume Access" that comes with the new Blue and White G3s, version 1.2, is incompatible with discs creat…

If anybody has purchased Mac version video cards such as Mirro Motion DC30+ or Mirro DV300 by Pynnacle Systems and are frustrated that the company has failed to update drivers for …