Ya ok, unless you looked at it wrong, then it crashed.

OS 8 was a platinum theme over System 7. Which was a slightly better System 6, which wasn't significantly different than System 4.

System 7 was good for the time, OS 8 and 9 were not, and Apples inability to improve the OS were really starting to show. Windows 95 was a more stable OS than OS 8. Tahoe is better.