As the Apple Turns: Scene 328: Preparing for the Rush (1/4/98)

Preparing for the Rush (1/4/98)

And speaking of Mac OS 8.1, it seems that Apple is being particularly intelligent in assessing the massive number of people who will attempt to download it when it's made available on the Internet later this month. After all, Mac OS 8 sold well into seven figures, and everyone running Mac OS 8 will want to download this update. Given those numbers, Apple's going to see smoke rising from its servers if they don't prepare for the upcoming assault.

That's why we're so happy to see that MacOS Rumors reports that Apple has upped its bandwidth and server capacity for ftp.info.apple.com, Apple's main software update FTP server. Both these main servers and their mirror sites have had their capacity upped to 9000 concurrent users, which will help prevent users from seeing the tiresome "too many users in your access class, try again later" types of errors. In addition, Apple's temporarily increased the bandwidth of the servers to 45 mbps, which should be a pipe large enough to prevent the massive frustration of 54 byte/second downloads that take five hours to complete, only to leave you with a corrupted and unusable file. Rumors speculates that this beefing up of Apple's servers may signal the dawn of a net-centric online software sales strategy for Apple, though we'd have to take the position that it's too early to tell.

For those of you without 'net connections, Mac OS 8.1 will be available on CD-ROM for a small fee. But then again, if you don't have a 'net connection, you wouldn't be reading this right now. Never mind. ;-)

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The above scene was taken from the 1/4/98 episode:

January 4, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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327: Best of '97: Mac OS 8 (1/4/98) Now that the new year has begun, CNet has posted their list of the ten best products of the year. Normally we wouldn't care, because we usually find CNet's reviews less than penetrating. However, despite their initially-lukewarm review of Mac OS 8, we're pleased to see that the current version of our favorite operating system ranked fifth in the list. Chalk it all up to Mac OS 8's subtle charms: little things like popup folders and multi-threaded copying don't particularly knock anyone's socks off at the beginning, but the overall elegance and simplicity of this latest Mac OS overhaul eventually wins over most users...
329: Spam and Blackmail (1/4/98) How about that? AOL is continuing its "war on spam" despite one spammer's threat to post the email addresses of every single AOL subscriber. "But AtAT," we hear you ask, "isn't that undisguised blackmail?"...

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