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I haven't ever used classic Mac OS when it was current, and I don't know anyone who did, but I do remember Windows 9x crashing and locking up being an almost daily occurrence. PCs came with dedicated reset buttons for a reason!

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My memory of Mac OS 7.1 was that it was rock solid. When it did bomb it wasn’t a surprise — you knew it was coming because you’d been messing around in ResEdit or playing with the debugger.

Or installing a hundred conflicting INITs

System 7.1 -- it didn't become Mac OS until sometime in the 7.5 era.

EDIT: Correction, I said 8.5. Sleepy.

7.5/7.6 was the switch-over to the "Mac OS" name.

Yep, sorry. Sleepy :)

I did, it was all intranet, I mentioned this in another post, but they didn't have the same threats as we do today.

>PCs came with dedicated reset buttons for a reason!

They still do! Windows 9x did suck, Windows NT however was amazing, it is like the most Linux like of all the Windows. How could they release Windows ME...

All modern Windows versions since XP have NT lineage.

They have other issues now, mostly performance, but not as many crashes at least. Its like saying all modern Intel CPUs are descended from Core M, but I don't know if it adds any relevant information, its mutated a lot and its very different, but at least it doesn't crash like 95, 98, 98 Plus! and ugh ME.

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