Comment by rwmj
13 hours ago
At an early start up I worked for, we had a bunch of PowerPC Mac pizza boxes running System 7. The experience was terrible, they crashed or locked up constantly.
I eventually took a few of them and installed MkLinux and they were rock-solid workhorses for years after, doing things like light file serving, Usenet proxy and a firewall.
I worked at an early ISP with a web development department. A couple of the guys had Macs with System 7.x. The things would lock up or crash on a daily basis and require near daily reboots. Some of that early software, especially Netscape Navigator, was incredibly unstable. Fortunately, we had Sun Sparc and SGI boxes for the servers.
Same for Win95 etc. In the 90s there was still a divergence between those who could afford expensive hardware to run a modern OS, and those who had to suffer with the toy version.
On more than one occasion (after constant crashing), I remember wanting to smash the the keyboard thru the monitor, like the famous .gif of old. The fury was real, haha.
Win95 technically had better memory protection than classic Mac OS, but that didn't matter much when you ran something that crashed the whole system.
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