I am REALLY hanging out for Logic and Emagic midi-drivers on OS X
2002-05-19 by Jeremy Martin
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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.