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It's incredible that it only crashed once a day!
by indolering 2y ago
It's incredible that it only crashed once a day!
- WillAdams 2y agoEven Mac OS X early on had problems. I actually maintained a "Crash Log" at the entrance to my cubicle, recording how many times a given application had crashed that day/week/month/year and ultimately extended it to record even the preceding years. Quark XPress 6 required a colour-coding which reached into the hundreds for a given year (my recovery folder got cleared out once a week and had hundreds of GBs of files in it most Fridays), and Adobe Acrobat wasn't far behind (but no recover folder), while the OS itself was quite reliable --- work done using TeXshop and other Cocoa apps rarely crashed or had problems. It was a big change from NeXTstep, where I can only recall one software crash, and two hardware faults (SCSI) during college, which was the high-water mark of my GUI experience, w/ a NeXT Cube (w/ Wacom ArtZ and a scanner) and NCR-3125 (running Go Corp.'s PenPoint) and Apple Newton MessagePad all connected together using a serial interface to write papers and take notes and do graphic design work on.