If I made a Mac OS 9 bootable FireWire hard drive and connected it to a new iMac, will I be able to see OS 9 on the iMac (using the startup FireWire target mode thingy)?
As if Apple wants people to have a reason to stay with Mac OS 9, never mind support a program that brings 1999 back to present day.With a bit of inside support from Apple...
Holy smokes! For my beige G3 to boot up OS 8.6, it usually takes about 2 and a half minutes, although shutdown is reasonably fast at 5-10 seconds. OS 9 used to take even longer to boot.It takes 20 seconds from pressing the icon on the dock to finish booting (with the usual complement of standard extensions). Shutdown takes three seconds.
Ohhh... oops. I never used 9.1 for any length of time on my G3, just when performing the update to 9.2.2. I had it on a Powerbook that I borrowed for a month way back in 2001, didn't really pay attention to its stability though, I was just using it because I was in Japan, and my desktop was waaay across the Pacific" ... I was using OS 9 from 2005 until early this year, can't even remember why I upgraded, but it was a total mistake. I have never had OS 8.6 "bomb" me. Why could this be? ..."
One possible reason would be using the latest version of OS9 ... on a machine that directly boots into OS9 and not OSX.
Use 9.1 for those machines; 9.2.2 is really optimized for Classic on OSX.
Memory was never a problem. When I first bought the computer with OS 8.1 or something like that, I immediately upgraded it to 64 MB of RAM, and then brought it up to a whopping 224 MB when I first installed OS 9. I did indeed have virtual memory turned off, never needed it. I never ran out of free memory, although one time I was down to about 4 MB. I promptly shut down all open programs at that point.Also, OS9 needs about 64MB RAM (128 is a sweet spot), once you are there you can turn Virtual Memory off. All Adobe apps conflict with Apple VM, for example on System7~OS9.