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Y-bartoday at 10:57 AM1 replyview on HN

I think the flaws have moved. I remember Mac OS 7-8-9 (”Classic”) fondly and the suite of software I regularly used there.

It crashed, and crashed hard, a few times per week. That never happens today, maybe at most once a month.

However, what has changed in terms of quality is that there are 1000% more smaller bugs. I never felt that small annoyances or problems were even noticeable or even existent back then. Every feature seemed to actually work. Yet just so far today I have encountered over a dozen small problems in my operating system and apps I use.

It’s exhausting in a different way. Two decades ago I felt ”safe” from problems by frequently saving my files. Today I dread having to navigate a UI that keeps giving me a thousand paper cuts of small bugs.


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rightbytetoday at 11:03 AM

I don't think it fair to compare cooperative multitasking OSs to OSs that requires virtual memory chips on a software quality basis.

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