If you wanted "meaningful data" about a crash, why didn't you install the free Macsbug utility from Apple and Motorola? It would invoke the interactive debugger instead of the bomb screen when a crash occurred.
At that time I never heard of it and neither did the 20 or so Mac guys that turned me on to the Mac. Besides with Windows it was so easy. I just look at the bug crash and at that time (before I knew how to debug) I could just search on the stop code on technet for a possible cause. Plus it showed you which driver was on the stack when it crashed so I had a reasonable idea of what is broken. I didn't have to install anything.
Besides MACS have never been about install debug tools...they were just supposed to work out of the box since it was a closed system. All I had was a MAC with all the Mac bundled software and it still crashed!!!!