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That’s true. The nostalgia nerds can rightly criticise the ever-spiralling bloat and inefficiency of modern systems. But modern macOS can go for months without

• theodric 2y ago
  This is what pushed me to get my parents on NT4 in 1997: the system would run until you wanted to reboot it, rather than crashing twice a day because Netscape decided to have a conniption like Win9x did. Never looked back. Win2000 was absolutely awesome for them, WinXP was twice the size and half the speed but fine and very long-lived, Vista was extremely reliable despite all the hate heaped on it...and we're approaching the modern era. Meanwhile, I was running IRIX (for which my record was 4 years without a reboot, and that only due to a power outage) and Linux; and when I got some money, macOS X: all rock solid. edit: I just remembered that Netcraft used to have a server uptime leaderboard, and for quite a while in the 1990s, Lamborghini was at the top of the list with their IRIX servers. The earliest archive I can find of the list is from 2001, with ONLY FreeBSD and IRIX occupying the top 29 places: https://web.archive.org/web/20010226190549/http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010226190549/http://uptime.net...
  • cosmic_cheese 2y ago
    Putting Win2K on my parents’ tower, replacing Win98SE, absolutely transformed that machine. It instantly went from cranky nuisance to unstoppable workhorse. Software updates like that have become depressingly rare.