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		savoytruffle on July 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electr... Also I believe 7.6 updated error reporting to native PPC codes so that a lot of the time an application could just crash on its own without crashing the whole system. Not always, but yeah even without protected memory.

steviedotboston on July 29, 2020 [–]

There was one release of System 7 where they advertised "Type 11 Errors are virtually eliminated!"

Imagine that being a selling point in an Apple product today...

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