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> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:52:35 -1200, Ivanhoe aided th' terraists with the
> following claims :
>
>> Brett Duval-Curtin, ye odious jackslave, I have seen drunkards do more
>> than thou, ye spurted:
>>
>>> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:17:39 MST Ivanhoe
>>> -tgk-this wrote in
>>> news:486C0B50.1416.uu-...
>>>
>>>> I ****ING HATE WINDOWS VISTA.
>>>>
>>> Ram your computer up your arse.
>> I tried that but it made me walk funny.
>
> Everyone hates Vista, thats why they're already working on windose7...
>
> Might be as useful as the original System 7...but System 7.5.5 was the
> best on PowerPC's 
>
system 7.5.x was a disaster for mac's, which coincided with the firing
of founder (and GOD) Steve Jobs and later Gil Amelio (turn-around artist
who wouldnt work without a golden parachute- and watched Apple's
fortunes fall),
when John Scully (a capable technologist who was responsible for the
gains- and losses- of Apple while awaiting the Return of the King- i
mean, God) decided to work with IBM to create a better processor while
opting for cheaper hardware profiles (i.e. opting for industry-standard
buses instead of the old pds, IDE etc.),
and allowing feature creep into the o/s while certain configurations
required bug fixes in the o/s which required that almost every machine
had a different version of the o/s shipped with it- and sometimes the
o/s STILL didnt work, so 7.5.7 and 7.6 eventually came free when released.
the most stable versions of the 7.5.x era are: 7.5.1, 7.5.3, 7.5.7
if for some reason your mac couldnt run one of these, you were stuck
with a crappy performa likely bought from sears or futureshop, which had
their own configurations and had their own o/s version included.
these o/s versions would have the 'r' (revision designation) tacked on
the end followed by a number (i.e. 7.5.2r3)
the first powerPC Native o/s was o/s 8.1, which meant that although
every PowerPC came shipped with 7.6 (thereby missing the 7.5.x fiasco
altogether) and above, it was 8.1 and above that was designed for the
ppc- meaning that the old '040 macs could run only up to 8.0 (8.1
installation disc would have 8.0 included)
The first feneration powerPC (601 processors) macs could run o/s 8.0
through 8.6, while the second generation (603 and 604 processors) could
run up to 9.1
the g3s could run 8.1 up to X, whilst the g4 series ran o/s 9 and x in
dual mode.