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Ah, well; that's still pretty early adoption for me. It's been a long time since the Tiger release.
If you're interested, here are Amazon.com's prices on four OS 10.5 configurations:
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard $109.00
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard [5-User Family Pack] $189.00
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard Server [10-Client License] $479.99
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard Server [Unlimited Client License] $949.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.amazon.com
I still haven't resolved my Classic support dilemma. The issue with archived Word 5.1 files seems work-around-able from several angles, but a text-based browser is still a conundrum. Several people have suggested the command line Lynx browser, and I downloaded the latest available version, but it's still not even close to being a satisfactory substitute for WannaBe for my purposes. I'm a command line ignoramus for several reasons, the main one being that I like working in a GUI.
What I love about WannaBe, the little text browser that's the main reason I keep hanging on to Classic Mode, is that it's about a low-hassle as an application can be, requiring essentially zero configuration, and its great virtue other then speed is that you can open an alias of the bookmarks file from a regular browser in a WannaBe window and use it as a (Command) clickable Bookmarks menu in WannaBe. Slick. Lynx not nearly so.
I've also downloaded the Sheepshaver third-party Classic runtime environment, which sounds promising, but I haven't had time yet to try it out. It only supports up to Mac OS 9.0.4, so I'll have to rustle up a copy of that and get it on my hard drive. That shouldn't be a problem (I think) for running WannaBe.
One thing that I hope will be improved in Leopard is memory management and optimization. The PowerBook I'm typing on hasn't had a restart in nearly two weeks, and the last couple of days it's been getting progressively flaky; the beach ball showing up frequently, applications quitting unexpectedly (which almost never happens when the memory isn't fragmented) or just running more slowly. It's past time for a restart, but I have four browsers running with 28 tabs loaded, and 21 applications open in total with maybe 30 documents windowshaded, not counting Classic Mode (small wonder the memory's fragmented!) and it takes forever to get all that shut down, restarted, and the Web pages reloaded over my dial-up connection. It would be so much more convenient and a big time-saver if there was some way to defragment the memory without logging out or restarting.
Actually, there may be. A shareware application called iFreeMem, The Memory Optimizer for Mac OS X which is claimed to be able to defragment memory without restarting the computer.
Something I'll be checking out if the issue isn't addressed in Leopard, but if it is possible to defrag the system memory efficiently without restarting, why is this not already built into the OS?
Charles W. Moore
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