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Topic: Mac OS 9

Related:

Mac Mac OS X

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite website(s):

Slashdot

Favorite possession(s):

Apple Computer, Windows computer, Linux box

Most admires:

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

Favorite book(s):

"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams

Favorite animal(s):

Penguin

Interest(s):

Computers

Currently has on their coffee table:

Mac Today, PC World

Favorite computer game(s):

Myst, Solitaire, Hacking

Favorite online activity(s):

Chatting on ICQ, Downloading MP3's, Finding warez

Favorite quote(s):

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

While Mac OS 9 has preemptive threads and synchronization primitives as part of the MPLibrary and DriverServicesLib, the usefulness of any implementation is very limited due to the fact that the majority of the Mac OS API's are not thread-safe.
Mac OS 9 - We hope developers still do their development on it to create a even more secure environment and Apple works on updating and making Mac OS X secure as its previous systems.
For Mac OS 9 Learn AppleScript and how to create powerful software automation solutions with our Workflow Automation with AppleScript Training CD.

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Carbon is designed to provide a gentle migration path for developers transitioning from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.
Answer: The Mac OS 9 version has been compressed in Stuffit format and then encoded in binhex format.
Mac OS 9 was initially released in October 1999 and received an incremental 9.

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X, PowerPC-based Macintosh computer, 1000 KB free RAM.
Unlike Mac OS 9 applications which can be run in the Classic environment under Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 drivers are completely incompatible with Mac OS X and cannot be loaded.
It enables Mac OS 9 clients to print up to 3X faster than via AppleTalk PAP or Apple Remote LPR.

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