It seems a lot of people forget just how crummy mac os was before x. I used OS 7.x for a good while, and it was generally speaking not better than its contempo

It seems a lot of people forget just how crummy mac os was before x. I used OS 7.x for a good while, and it was generally speaking not better than its contemporary, windows 95. In fact it might have been even worse, at least as far as multitasking and stability go. Windows 98 SE was actually a fairly good system as long as you didn't overtax its somewhat limited multi-tasking ability & ran it on high quality hardware (far less crash prone than Mac OS 8.x)