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Those old OSes also had severe reliability and usability issues. They did not have memory protection, so a web browser crash can take out your word processor an
by Decade 11y ago
Those old OSes also had severe reliability and usability issues. They did not have memory protection, so a web browser crash can take out your word processor and everything else. Each of them had a key combination you had to be familiar with to reboot the machine.
MacOS 9 also didn't have preemptive multitasking, so encoding a movie means you don't get to read your email. Some people used MacOS 9 as a web server, and discovered that if something fell on the mouse then the server was offline until the mouse finished selecting something.
So, stick to the stable software, and don't make your document too big, and you should be fine.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoDepends on the OS, of course. If you were lucky enough to use Windows NT, you had protected memory and preëmptive multitasking!.. but it was a bit slow.
- ido 11y agoI find the notorious win9x stability issues were to a large extent because they seemed particularly sensitive to bad hardware - run win98 se on solid, good quality hardware and it was actually quite stable. As long as you didn't try multitasking too much at least...
- DanBC 11y agoBad drivers in particular would cause a bunch of bluescreens.