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Back in the 1990s, on old Macs, when Netscape crashed, it crashed with a "type 11" error which brought down the whole system. (I remember Word had autosave... I

Back in the 1990s, on old Macs, when Netscape crashed, it crashed with a "type 11" error which brought down the whole system. (I remember Word had autosave... I don't know when it first appeared, though.)

analog31 5y ago
Worse, a single mac could take down all the Macs on the network. At one point I reproducibly traced it to a font.
- post-it 5y ago
  People nostalge over the the breath of fresh air that was Windows XP, but OS X was an equally incredible improvement.
  - analog31 5y ago
    Indeed, I missed out on osx, but it was a much needed shot in the arm for Apple. System 7 was at the end of the road