Post #2046399

2025-03-27 04:40 UTC

@atax1a It was! I was in a very small group tasked with improving performance and stability from 7.5.5 through 9.2.2. We fixed bugs wherever they popped up if there was nobody already working on that code (mostly non-UI code). We also helped other teams find and fix those kinds of problems.

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@atax1a@infosec.exchange 2025-03-27 04:43

@jimluther thanks for your work and for sharing your stories :)

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@theirongiant@hachyderm.io 2025-03-27 06:23

@jimluther @atax1a - Jim, this is a fascinating thread. Thank you for sharing your story and these details. Do you suppose that if everyone hosting files on real Macs ran System 7.6+ with the 9.2.2 AppleShare client, and every user participating in #globaltalk did the same thing for themselves as a client, would this have a measurable impact on responsiveness of browsing shares and file transfer throughput on #globaltalk? The best transfer speed I've seen so far are about 16 KB/sec, and of course folders take ages to load. Hosting virtual Apple Internet Routers via QEMU and UTM has helped a lot. A virtual Quadra 800 running on Apple Silicon can process packets a lot faster than any real 68K or low end PPC ever could.

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@dgentry@mastodon.social 2025-03-27 06:40

@jimluther ...were you a Blue Meanie? (I never worked at Apple, just heard bit about the org back then)

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