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There were no kernel panics back then. There was hardly a kernel per se until 8.6. We had “Sorry, a system error occurred” bombs. It was “funny” that those err
by tambourine_man 4y ago
There were no kernel panics back then. There was hardly a kernel per se until 8.6.
We had “Sorry, a system error occurred” bombs. It was “funny” that those errors remained in 1 bit color even though the entire system had full color support for decades.
- mceachen 4y agoYou got that dialog only if you were (un)lucky. System 6, 7, and 8 could crash in spectacularly visual ways, as some off-by-one memory access wrote into the VRAM. I remember it was a point of pride that macs crashed in ways that Windows BSODs could only dream of.
- tambourine_man 4y agoMost common for me was a frozen cursor, actually. Probably once a week or more.