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And yet, OS 8 and OS 9 couldn't even match that joke.

• anthk 10mo ago
  Ahem, w98 BSOD if you sneezed hard near it. Installing a driver? BSOD. IE page fault? BSOD. 128k stack limit reached? either grind to a halt or a BSOD. And so on...
  • icedchai 10mo ago
    I worked at a company that was delivering a client-side app in Java launched from IE. I think we had an ActiveX plugin as the "launcher." This predated "Java Web Start." It was hysterically bad. We were targeting 32 meg Win 98 systems and they were comically slow and unstable. Most of our developers had 64 and 128 meg boxes with NT 4.0. I mostly worked on the server side stuff, and used them as a terminal into the Solaris and Linux systems.
  • deaddodo 10mo ago
    > To be clear, Win98 was a garbage fire of an OS (when it came to stability); which makes it so much worse that Mac OS 8 and 9 were so bad.
    • anthk 10mo ago
      WIn 98SE and Mac OS 9 were on par. Ditto with System 7.5.3 and Windows 95 OSR2.
      • deaddodo 10mo ago
        I disagree, and gave the technical reasons. So now we're just going into opinion, which I'm not interested in. Either way, you're welcome to believe what you like.