my Mac G5 froze

I just finished burning some music to a CD. The system froze - I was able to operate the CD eject (from the keyboard) but nothing else. The mouse was inoperable. I had to turn the power off and reboot. I thought this only happens in Windows. Can anyone please explain what is happening here?
Barry
 
This does still happen on macs, just not as much. The complexity of modern Operating Systems makes it all but impossible to build an entirely stable System. Plus when you take into account Hardware errors, crashes are going to happen. It's just damage limitation.
 
Thanks everyone, guess I shouldn't complain too much, the Mac has been pretty seamless otherwise. I'll look at those maintenance programs.
Barry
 
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