on 3/23/04 4:43 AM, Ken Shmidheiser at kshmidheiser@... wrote:

> 5.) Sluggish performance (except on very high end machines)
> 

Yup.   Search is even worse.

> 4.) A terrible implementation of the Finder

Yup, but I paid for the latest Beta, "Panther" and it is a bit better.   I
will visit my daughter and son-in-law soon and hook up to cable so I can
download the latest 58 meg fix.
 
> 3.) A file structure that's sensitive to unplanned power outages
> and is a bear to repair. (Ever struggle with a crosslinked
> file on OS X? I hope you never have to.)

In the Tech Team's effort to deliver student desktops, we have broken a few
machines.  (We foolishly tried to clone them.)  It seems faster to just
re-install.   After all that only takes about 25 minutes on an e-Mac.   We
are now attempting to do it with Workgroup Manager and NetInfo.  Buggy and
flakey, but seems to have a future when you desperately need to get close to
300 machines out in the next few weeks.  (not to mention the truss one needs
to get an e-Mac out of the box)

> 
> 2.) More susceptible to external attack than Classic. (Thank goodness
> Mac and Unix hackers don't have a propensity to write viruses.)

I suppose that is coming.

> 
> 1.) After two decades, millions of dollars in research, a Desktop
> where icons are still randomly rearranged after each restart.

Icons supplied from a server to 9.n machines are almost comical.

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