Mac OS X Developer Preview 4

stevegongruistevegongrui
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in macOS edited January 2014
I was at an apple user group meeting today and these apple employees gave out some old stuff.



I picked up a developer preview 4 of os x cause I remember i was really excited about os x for a long time prior it's release and never knew anything about it. therefore, I wanted to check it out, and see what os x was like a whole year before it was released. The cd is dated May 2000.





Unfortunately my computer is not os 9 bootable and I cannot install it.



So is there anyone here that used the developer preview back then? Could you tell me a bit about what it was like?



Thanks,

STeve.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    This is taken from the read me in the cd



    http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rg8s...icture%202.pdf
  • Reply 2 of 8
    beigeanbeigean Posts: 10member
    not sure if you've seen this yet



    http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/...s-x-dp4-1.html
  • Reply 3 of 8
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    thanks, that was interesting.



    Now, do you know what kind of a machine I could run it on?
  • Reply 4 of 8
    kennethkenneth Posts: 832member
    I got the DP4 on the mail..

    At that time, I installed it on my trusty old iMac Bondi.

    so the CRT iMac would work.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kenneth

    I got the DP4 on the mail..

    At that time, I installed it on my trusty old iMac Bondi.

    so the CRT iMac would work.



    was it REALLY slow?



    Do you think it's worth a try?
  • Reply 6 of 8
    kennethkenneth Posts: 832member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by stevegongrui

    was it REALLY slow?



    Do you think it's worth a try?



    well.. if you have the time and the right Macs.. why not?

    DP4 vs. 10.3.3



    What a major improvement, right? [compared to WinME and XP SP1]
  • Reply 7 of 8
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Ahhhhh, DP4, I remember it well.



    I'll have to dig up my Hera build CDs for kicks and giggles one day. I might even still have the Atlas ones around here.



    (For those of you who are lost, Hera and Atlas predated DP1 by over a year.)
  • Reply 8 of 8
    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    I got to play with most of the developer released builds of MacOS X from before MacOS X Server 1.0 came out... And I have absolutely no nostalgia or desire to go back and run any of those versions.



    Having a DP4 disk is much nicer on the shelf than on the HD....
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