[savoytruffle]

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]

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...