OsX or MacOS - which should I go with?

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"Kevin McMurtrie "
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Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

That's like asking "I'm going to switch from MacOOZE to Windows.
Should I jump right into Windows XP, or should I start with the original
Windows 3.0?" :-)

Forget MacOS 9. It sucks. It blows major chunks.

No, it doesn't. No, it isn't. I'd still take it over any Windows operating
system any day.

It's officially
dead and unsupported as far as Apple is concerned.

New development is unsupported. Classic is still supported under OS X.

Unless you are studying ancient history, there is no other choice than
OS X.

.... with the classic environment if you have old favorite software. But
otherwise, you're right.

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 05:45:55 -0500, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

And never mind that if you get a new machine, you're going to get OSX anyway.

On 2005-02-09 20:08:04 -0500, Tim Murray said:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 05:45:55 -0500, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

And never mind that if you get a new machine, you're going to get OSX anyway.

Skip OS9- that is for the old time Mac users with old software. Go
directly to OSX 10.3 (Panther) and don't look back. It will include 9
anyway (it will be called Classic) to run any old pre OSX software you
may have. OSX Panther is a very very stable, relatively unhackable UNIX
platform and it is far better than the older Mac OS. Considering the
OLD OS was better than anything in Windoze, you can imagine what 10.3
will do. And 10.4 is coming out very soon.
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