Jon_Alper
Jun 15 at 1:59pmWeb
Show threadDave NanianJun 15
@jon_alper ugh
Show threadJim LutherJun 15
@jon_alper I might have done something to hurt sales by fixing many of virtual memory’s problems in 8.1 🤷‍♂️
Show threadJon_AlperJun 15
@jimluther hah, you committed an early Sherlocking! And we appreciated you for it. 8.1 was a happy place to be after some nasty bumps on the way there.
Show threadJim LutherJun 15

@jon_alper It was reverse-Sherlocking. Sherlock took over the functionality of things that weren’t already in the OS.

Virtual Memory was in System 7.0 but was broken in many ways, and there was really nobody maintaining it. Connectix took the gamble of replacing an OS component that wasn’t working very well and it paid off for them for several years.

Speed Doubler was another Connectix product that took advantage of Apple’s inattention to a few other OS components. I fixed the File Manager’s disk cache performance in System 7.6 and reverse-Sherlocked part of that product, too.