I mentioned that when I said that BSODs were way more common. Although I didn't experience PC stability from their inception, I was around since at least the Windows 3.1 days, and definitely ran into a lot of BSODs. However, I am more forgiving of that lower stability during that era for a few reasons. Firstly, mass market PC software was still a relatively young thing at the time and the amount of information available to programmers was a mere speck of what we have now. There was also a lot of pressure on firms to get software to market as fast as possible. For what was available at the time, I'd say that software could have been way worse than it was. If software today was frequently causing system crashes, then I would judge that a lot differently because that's a problem we definitely should have solved by now. From what I remember, crashes didn't occur so often that PCs became unusable. For the most part, they worked, and worked pretty well. Software back then, for better or worse security practices, was more straight forward than much of today's. I come across more bugs than I ever did even 20 years ago. Sure, operating systems are more stable now, which apparently has afforded us the ability to ship more bugs.