Let’s be honest: CorelDRAW on XP crashed. A lot.
Launching CorelDRAW 11, 12, or X3 on a Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM was a ritual. corel draw windows xp
The secret was XP's stability (relative to Windows 98/Me) combined with Corel's lean code. You could run CorelDRAW 9 on a Toshiba laptop with 256MB of RAM while also burning a CD in Nero and chatting on MSN Messenger. Try that with modern software. Let’s be honest: CorelDRAW on XP crashed