If you had good enough hardware to run OS X, running OS 9 stuff in Classic meant...

ndiddy 30 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?

If you had good enough hardware to run OS X, running OS 9 stuff in Classic meant that at least you didn't have to restart your whole computer when something froze, just all your OS 9 software. OS X was definitely slow and a bit buggy early on, but IIRC it got good enough for daily use around when Jaguar came out (late 2002?).

StilesCrisis 26 days ago [–]

Oh sure, by the time 10.2 rolled around, the system was quite usable. All the major apps had been Carbonized.