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Ellipsis

(9,124 posts) Thu Oct 28, 2021, 12:19 AM Oct 2021

I gotta say a 12 gig OS upgrade from Apple to take place in less then an hour blows my mind.

Back in the day a major OS up grade would have taken a minimum of 6 hours.

Hope the damn thing works. But 12 gig... amazing.

All the "stuff" that goes on that you don't see you can't imagine unless your part of the crew.

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I gotta say a 12 gig OS upgrade from Apple to take place in less then an hour blows my mind. (Original Post) Ellipsis Oct 2021 OP

I remember when my favorite operating system and all my favorite software tools... hunter Oct 2021 #1

hunter

(38,304 posts)

1. I remember when my favorite operating system and all my favorite software tools...

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Thu Oct 28, 2021, 02:51 AM

Oct 2021

... fit on a bootable 1.44 megabyte floppy disk.

To paraphrase Theodore Sturgeon, ninety percent of "progress" since then is crap.

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