[HN Gopher] Are you ready for 13.3 or 9.1?
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       Are you ready for 13.3 or 9.1?
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-03-26 11:53 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | mproud wrote:
       | I'm a little confused. The article seems to walk through
       | reinstalling Mac OS 9.1, or performing an erase and install. And
       | this sounds like upgrading as opposed to updating.
       | 
       |  _Upgrading_ is going from one major version to the next. There
       | is a higher risk of failure when doing so.
       | 
       |  _Updating_ is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes
       | and small patches.
       | 
       | I am sure I was one of those people who upgraded their machine
       | from 9.0.3 or 9.0.4 to 9.1, and I do not remember batting an eye
       | doing so. By this time, updates were readily available via the
       | Internet -- this should have been a fairly straightforward
       | process, without the need for CDs or multiple hard drives.
        
         | 2h wrote:
         | > Upgrading is going from one major version to the next.
         | 
         | > Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes
         | and small patches.
         | 
         | I dont agree with this at all. You could swap the two words and
         | still have a cogent paragraph. what reference do you have for
         | these terms?
        
           | qup wrote:
           | Somebody let the apt maintainers know they've got it wrong
        
             | 2h wrote:
             | Right because the English language is maintained by the
             | _apt maintainers_
        
       | CharlesW wrote:
       | For anyone else who's confused because of how it's presented,
       | this is a 2001 article about upgrading to Mac OS 9.1, with a
       | short intro above the first "What it does" subhead.
        
         | starmftronajoll wrote:
         | This is a 2023 article walking through the process for
         | installing Mac OS 9.1, as a point of comparison to modern day
         | macOS updates.
        
           | LegionMammal978 wrote:
           | At the end:
           | 
           | > Reformatted from the original, first published in MacUser
           | volume 17 issue 10, 2001.
           | 
           | Everything but the intro looks like it came directly from the
           | original.
        
       | diebeforei485 wrote:
       | > In the next day or three, Apple is expected to release the
       | update to bring macOS Ventura to version 13.3.
       | 
       | Is there a new update process expected for 13.3 ?
        
         | nsxwolf wrote:
         | I don't understand what this article is trying to say at all.
         | Why did it bring Ventura into it?
        
           | macintux wrote:
           | I thought it was a reminder of how far we've come. That long,
           | highly technical upgrade process has now been more or less
           | consolidated to a single mouse click.
        
         | pridkett wrote:
         | No. The point of the article, as I understand it, is to show
         | how much easier upgrading OS versions has become. OS upgrades
         | used to be rare and slow, because you needed to buy the CD. You
         | used to need to make sure everything was backed up, or in this
         | case, have multiple drives or partitions, because the processes
         | often went wrong.
         | 
         | Now it seems like these upgrades just happen when we sleep and
         | people want them on day 1. And they're much easier.
        
         | 404mm wrote:
         | No, it's just a regular minor release.
        
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