Examples of old fonts that could cause AI CS3 to get unstable?

I keep hearing this idea that old fonts can make AI unstable.
It is an interesting theory, and one which could explain various things I've seen, but it is so vague that I don't know what to think about it.
What are some examples of actual old fonts that would be real demonstrations of this idea? Are they all PostScript Type 1 faces? All released by Adobe prior to 1990? Any info at all?
I would nominate the original MyriadMM typeface. I don't have it installed anymore, but someone might. But this is too obvious of a "is not supported on a modern Mac" case. I'm thinking if this theory is real, the example will be something like the original AvantGarde version 1 PS face from 1987 (or whenever).
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Any old fonts can make any modern application unstable, particularly Adobe apps.
Fonts have updates too as have applications. Fonts were not coded in the same way years ago as they are today and there were restrictions as to how many fonts could be in a font suitcase and how many characters could be in a font itself. There were also restrictions on system and operating system level that made that neccessary then.
A lot have changed over the years and font technologies have evolved a lot and changed too.
You mention a MM font (Multiple Master). MM fonts are no longer supported on systemlevel and/or in applications even though old documents that use them can show them even though the specific features that an MM font contains are no longer supported or can no longer be used (had to do with sclability and swashes).
Fonts that have been around for a long time also tend to have been moved in parts between both users and font suitcases, sometimes not even living in the originally named suitcase (to get around restrictions of number of installed and active suitcases at the time) and might also have lost its postscript parts.
It doesnt't matter if we are talking about type 1 or 3 or bitmap fonts, or truetypes or commerical ones or free ones. If the fonts are old, they can misbehave for many reasons. If an installed font has been through numerous crashes (applications, system, documents etc) also the font can have got hit and got damaged. That's why you need to check the health of your fonts regularly, and hve your original fonts safely on a disk or backup so you can reinstall it if it starts to misbehave.
Nowadays you can check fonts for damage with FontBook that comes with the system, or with one of the font managers.
Then there are the badly created fonts that pop up now and then too and therefore create problems. But that is another story.

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