[Ti] Software Update everybody

[Michael Bigley]

>Actually, the main cause of crashes was IE on MacOS 9. Using other 
>browsers stopped the crashes.
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>For example, many of us, who had regular crashes on our PowerBooks, 
>ran web servers and the like with MacOS 9 (or 8) and they would run 
>for months and even years without a crash.

I think that is one of the greatest benefits of OSX. IE is still 
crappy and crashes, but the OS doesn't go with it.  Early OSX 
versions of Eudora crashed regularly, but I still used it because it 
was a 30 second annoyance within the app, rather than a few minute 
loss of the OS and possible data from another app.

Chimera is still in version 0.6 and crashes once in a while... in OS9 
I wouldn't be able to use such an unstable app on a production boxen. 
So I would miss out on the tabbed browsing and speed advantages.

Illustrator 10 crashes so regularly (the longest I have every been 
able to keep it running is less than an hour) in OSX that I save at 
almost every change; Photoshop crashes too; but neither brings the 
whole house down.  In OS9 an app crashing more often than not meant 
losing everything unsaved in every other app and an OS reboot as well.

I do agree, however, that OS9 is very stable; as you mention Woz, we 
have our AFP server running on a G3 beige tower running OS9 and I 
can't remember the last time that thing needed a restart.
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