A bit late, but I've always loved system 8. I wish I could get my Sawtooth to run it; I know some sawtooth's can with a special build, but I've never figured it out.
8.6, I should say, is probably the best classic system. It doesn't have much if any OS X cruft grafted on to run in classic mode; yet it has most if not all of the features that 9 added. It has decent firewire, and carbonlib 1.6 runs, so carbonized apps will run. The font bug is about the only major bug I'm aware of, and it places nicely with big drives.
It's so much faster than 9, too. Much more "modern" than 7, though I can't deny I'd love to have a g4 machine running 7.6--it would fly.
Possibly apocryphal, but does anything speedwise beat system 6 on a ram disk on a Daystar turbo 040 accelerated IIci? Doesn't that cold boot in less than 1 second?
8.6, I should say, is probably the best classic system. It doesn't have much if any OS X cruft grafted on to run in classic mode; yet it has most if not all of the features that 9 added. It has decent firewire, and carbonlib 1.6 runs, so carbonized apps will run. The font bug is about the only major bug I'm aware of, and it places nicely with big drives.
It's so much faster than 9, too. Much more "modern" than 7, though I can't deny I'd love to have a g4 machine running 7.6--it would fly.
Possibly apocryphal, but does anything speedwise beat system 6 on a ram disk on a Daystar turbo 040 accelerated IIci? Doesn't that cold boot in less than 1 second?