No memory Protection: Neither did Windows.

No virtual memory. Actually, starting with System 7.0, which was released in May, 1991, MacOS had a virtual memory system. And unlike Windows' version, the Mac version almost never made you feel like you were trapped in Swap-File Hell....

The Switcher: The Switcher was really only released as a "toy", and was fairly irrelevant after about 1987, when Macs could have more than 256K (yes, that's KILObytes) of RAM, and since System 7 supported Virtual Memory, it was REALLY irrelevant then. Heck, I wrote a floppy-based "Switcher" for my Apple ][. Took about 4 seconds to swap-out 48K of RAM (pretty much every single byte of it!). Was cool to be able to run Magic Window (for documentation) and your Software Development "IDE" (in my case, usually my specially-modified version of the TED][ Editor/Assembler) and be able to flip back and forth.

As far as "stability" goes, I never had that much problem with MacOS, as long as I stayed out of Aldus Freehand or Photoshop. Those apps were pretty much guaranteed to elicit at least one "bomb" per hour... ;-) Windows, on the other hand...

Citation, please.

NuBus was not a "proprietary" Apple bus.

NuBus was supposed to be "the next big thing", and was actually created by MIT, and was used by Apple and Texas Instruments, among a few others.

According to this article, it is still being used in some high-end embedded applications.

It just lost out to PCI bus, mostly because of connector-cost and cost of the host interface.

USB CONNECTORS were everywhere on PC MOTHERBOARDS and even though the Windows OS theoretically had USB support since Windows 95 R2 ("OSR2") Service Release 2.1 came out in 8/96, virtually NOTHING was available to use it, and when someone named Bill Gates stood up at COMDEX in 1998 and tried to actually USE the USB support in Windows 98... well, we all know how THAT turned out...

While it is true that Apple didn't "invent" USB (that prize goes mostly to Intel, which is why the CONNECTORS appeared on Wintel mobos for nearly FOUR years before Windows users could actually do anything with them), but the instantaneous and huge popularity of the iMac certainly catapulted USB into the mainstream in a helluva hurry!

You MUST be confusing MacOS and Windows.

I have been using Macs since they were called Lisas (yeah, yeah, I know. Different OS (sort of)), and using Windows since at least version 3.1, and in all those years, I have only had to resort to an OS Reinstall ONCE on a Mac (68k or PPC). I cannot even begin to count the times I had to do a reinstall on Windows. That stuff didn't even BEGIN to abate until Windows 2000.

As far as having to restart, both OSes had their fair share of memory leaks. But when it comes to "outright ruin there[sic] system install[ation]", there is simply no comparison.

I can't remember where I first saw the reference; but I'm pretty sure the PowerMac 6100 series was a CHRP design, and it was pretty popular at the time.

Actually, I believe that was thanks to Apple's bitchin' JiT Cross-Compiler, not actual "emulation".

If you want to see i86 Emulation on the PPC, look at something like Connectix' VirtualPC (part of which lives on in Windows as Hyper-V).

Let me tell you, the performance was not wonderful in that product...

Those SHOULD be able to run on a PowerMac 6100; because it is a "pure" CHIRP Reference Platform.

That would be interesting to see.

DId they port the GUI, too?

Horrible in what way?

Windows didn't even have a Hierarchical filing structure at the GUI level until W 95.

And let's talk about FAT vs. HFS...

Plus, no Multi-Monitor support, Y2K issues, peripheral driver nightmares, severe memory limitations, complicated application installs... the list goes on and on...

MacOS definitely had its flaws, but as user of both since version 1.0 of both, I will take a Macintosh CS (current in 1991) running MacOS 6.8 or 7.0 ANYTIME over a Windows 3.11 386 machine.

I know my Username will get me unnecessarily bashed and down-modded for this; but can anyone disagree on a FACTUAL basis?

And, with Windows 8, that is true even more once again...

Your comment about "games" was a matter of most developers not caring enough to write for a platform with only about 2% marketshare (one of the reasons there aren't more Linux games right now).

However, your comment regarding MS Office is completely off-base.

Other than Access (which MS refused to port to MacOS) and (much more importantly!) MS Outlook and Exchange Server (which MS refused to port to MacOS), Macs have always been "on-Parity" (or even ahead-of) Windows systems as regards to MS Office capability.

You do know that both MS Word and MS Excel were Mac-ONLY at first (MS Word existed, but didn't have a GUI for at least 2 years after it was available on MacOS). I don't know about PowerPoint, but that might have been Mac-Only too for awhile.

Wait a minute. Microsoft has the ability to innovate? Who knew!

Are you kidding? All Microsoft DOES is "innovate".

What they NEVER seem to do (or only rarely), is stick to a particular technology long enough to actually get it working, before abandoning it for the next generation of buzzwords and alphabet soup that never quite work, before it's time for "Rinse and Repeat"...

Oh, noes! You KNOW that isn't true!

Don'tcha remember?!? On 9/11/01., all the "Hijacked" Airliners simply DISAPPEARED from RADAR because they switched their Transponders off... (Rolls eyes) [/sarcasm]

LOLWUT?

I've only been in a Starbucks once in my life, and that was because someone I was with wanted to stop there.

And as for shoes, the most expensive pair of shoes I have ever bought was about $135. And I have never paid ov $20 for a pair of "sports" shoes. Doesn't make sense for me. I run the heels over too fast to make that make economic sense.

I have, however, been employed pretty steadily for the past forty years as an embedded engineer and applications developer.

So, what was that, again?

And all the snot-nosed, socially retarded, little script kiddies huddled in their Mom's basements pawing their greasy fingers over their creaky little POS plastic shitbox computers somehow don't think they are the "World's Greatest Hax0rs(tm)"?

Yeahrightsure.

Ahem. Get your facts straight.

One of the Developers of VLC decided to have a hissy fit and VOLUNTARILY REMOVED VLC from the App Store. Apple didn't "ban" VLC. VLC "banned" ITSELF.

And F/OSS? Point to me where it says that App Store apps (whether iOS or OS X) cannot have F/OSS code in them? Hell, on the Apple website, the damned *OS*(es) have pages crowing about the number of F/OSS Projects that OS X (and iOS) incorporate (and to which Apple contributes and/or has initiated themselves).

WTF is your problem, hater?