Classic Mac OS was remarkably simple indeed and that simplicity died with Mac OS X. You could put the “System” and the “Finder” inside a folder called “System Folder” at the root of the drive and that was enough for you to have a bootable disk.
You could name your files whatever you wanted, as one should, no magical dot 3 letters extension at the end required.
There was a one to one relationship between a folder and a window and the files within it. One folder had always one window showing its contents which where always arranged in the way you set up. The arrangement was even preserved if you copied it to another drive.
I could go on and on. Memory management, process isolation and multitasking were deeply flawed and bolted on, but the rest of the experience was incredibly simple and cohesive and hasn’t been matched since.
Maybe a nit, but FWIW, on OS X you still can name your files whatever you want, 3 letter suffixes do not influence the file type, and folders still store their layout if in that mode (click the 4 squares in the toolbar and maybe you have to change one setting in the CMD J window not at a mac right now).
(not attcking you, the fact that it is a hidden setting probably proves your point. just find it interesting that this stuff is around still)
You could name your files whatever you wanted, as one should, no magical dot 3 letters extension at the end required.
There was a one to one relationship between a folder and a window and the files within it. One folder had always one window showing its contents which where always arranged in the way you set up. The arrangement was even preserved if you copied it to another drive.
I could go on and on. Memory management, process isolation and multitasking were deeply flawed and bolted on, but the rest of the experience was incredibly simple and cohesive and hasn’t been matched since.