Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Typical Mac users Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:48:16 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20260424084816.00007287@gmail.com> References: <87qzo73oeq.fsf@rpi3> <10sa2pm$24a8s$3@dont-email.me> <8X6GR.974697$4wI6.165854@fx24.iad> <10sb1na$2eidm$1@dont-email.me> <10sb8o2$2gl78$5@dont-email.me> <10scp6j$2tb33$2@dont-email.me> <10sdcqm$33psb$2@dont-email.me> <10se2cu$33psb$10@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0d50c450eb7186eef78d958037a2c9f"; logging-data="4014005"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+uH5kjJqZ4LVv2/UfYBkVhtIpHCW7kJB8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wzD4H8c9zPY2+7m2OIgBtohG1Lo= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85909 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:144970 On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:59:17 -0400 CrudeSausage wrote: > The reason I ask is because classic MacOS had a reputation for being > unstable. Technology historians on YouTube re all too happy to claim > that MacOS was so unstable that it made Windows 95 look rock solid. Well *there's* your problem :/ "Technology historians on YouTube" are, for the most part, a bunch of know-nothings chasing likesharesubscribes whose idea of "research" is skimming Wikipedia (or, these days, asking Expensive ELIZA,) who are perfectly happy to parrot any random thing that seems attention-getting without regard for accuracy. I'm sure there are some folks out there trying to do good work in the "video essay" format, but the Algorithm does not select for quality-of-info. Classic MacOS had its share of limitations - it never fully evolved beyond its single-tasking origins and never did get memory protection, so an errant process could hang or crash the whole system, and while its extensibility was fairly astonishing third-party add-ons/drivers could end up conflicting with each other - but on the whole it was as stable as any cooperatively-multitasked, non-protected system ever has been. Comparing it to Win95 in particular is just ludicrous.