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From: M Stevens <m@...> 
Date: Sat May 18, 2002 2:01pm 
Subject: Re: [LUG] LAM: I am REALLY hanging out for Logic and Emagic
midi-drivers on OS X  


On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 05:09 AM, johnpitcairn wrote:
> I've been using OS X every day for over a year now in my real life
> (graphic/web design). Rebooting into OS 9 just to use Logic
> makes me extremely aware of just how flaky, unstable, memory-
> stupid, hacked-up and just plain 80s-vintage the old MacOS
> really is. Sure, the GUI is snappier, but that's about it.
> Did I mention unstable? I haven't had to reboot Mac OS X at all in
> over 6 months (no, really) due to an OS or application crash.
> Apps can f**k up and die as much as they want, the OS just
> soldiers on. If it wasn't for Logic, I'd never use OS9. It's a total
> piece of crap by comparison.


Apple's got a heck of a lot of optimization to do before I try it. OS X 
is nice, but not give-up-20%-of-my-performance nice. Yeah, memory mgmt 
is particularly Flintstonian in OS 9/8/7. While 9 doesn't have the 
memory protection stuff X has, my experience with it's performance on my 
machines doesn't come anywhere near warranting branding it as a "piece 
of crap". Then again, I run a pretty tight ship.

Frankly, OS X can't even render a web page in an expedient fashion... 
I'd rather Emagic not waste time supporting however few users are 
currently willing to take a performance hit like that. Maybe after 
Jaguar, maybe the next one. Don't get my wrong, I've also used OS X in 
my real life since it came out ( unix admin... I mostly use the Terminal 
app, ) and I'm not trashing it. The audio support is simply fantastic, 
and I also look forward to  using it for my sound stuff... when it's 
ready.