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scarface_74 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

I think you have rose colored glasses on. System 7-8 at least were crash proned disasters and the 68K emulator was so bad on the first gen PPC computers you basically had to use SpeedDoubler - a much better third party emulator.

Half the OS was still running under emulatiom

Nevermark 4 months ago [–]

> I think you have rose colored glasses on. System 7-8 at least were crash proned disasters

I think that is what was said:

> (Though I’m partial to the classic Mac OS from a UI point of view, Mac OS X had a better UX due to its stability.)

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