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ChrisMarshallNY parent
> Aqua was such a revelation at the time.

Liquid Glass seems to hearken back to that era...

smallmancontrov
I am so glad that we seem to be starting to crawl out of the minimalist local minimum.
ChrisMarshallNY OP
The one thing that I remember about Aqua, was what it did to performance.

Before OSX was released, we were seeded prerelease copies, but with the original System 7 UI.

It was really fast.

When the first Aqua release came out, the performance dropped like a stone.

classichasclass
That sounds like Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server (which would have been Platinum). And it is, indeed, quite snappy. I have it on a Wallstreet G3 and it runs very well.
mrkpdl
The aqua interface first shipped in Mac OS X Developer Preview 3. So they could be referring to DP2 which had a platinum like interface but was released after Apple had moved on from the rhapsody concept.
ChrisMarshallNY OP
That sounds about right.

It was a while ago, so my memory is fuzzy.

wmf
The slowdown was probably the switch from Display PostScript to Quartz.
schmidtleonard
A quarter century of Moore's Law smashes that from "small problem" to "utterly nonexistent problem."

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