{"id":4583,"date":"2009-10-04T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:16:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:16:05","slug":"newsletter-issue-514-so-is-snow-leopard-the-most-reliable-mac-os-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/10\/newsletter-issue-514-so-is-snow-leopard-the-most-reliable-mac-os-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #514: So is Snow Leopard the Most Reliable Mac OS Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me put all this in perspective. When I first began to use a Mac in the 1980s, it was difficult to work a full day without having a system crash. Indeed, I remember setting up a new Mac IIcx at my home office back in 1989, and having it freeze within 15 minutes after the initial boot. That was before I launched a single application, so the computer was idle when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can\u2019t say all of my Mac experiences were that bad and, in fact, the version of System 6 I was soon replaced by a later one, which proved noticeably more stable.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, the Mac OS was really becoming long in the tooth fast. The move to System 7, in 1991, was supposed to herald a new era of color support and ease of use. But you\u2019d easily hit the rough spots, although the Restart button in the crash warning prompt would sometimes work for once.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fascinating, in retrospect, to see Microsoft using the \u201cSystem 7? label at times to refer to Windows 7, as if the very mention of Windows was itself a negative. Strange, though, that they\u2019d crib the name of a Mac OS version that was distinctive only in encouraging Apple that it was time to move on and develop a truly industrial-strength operating system.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2009\/10\/newsletter-issue-514\/#system\">Continue Reading\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me put all this in perspective. When I first began to use a Mac in the 1980s, it was difficult to work a full day without having a system crash. 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