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2. Mac OS 8 - Wikipedia

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   Mac OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. [2] It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before.

3. macOS version history - Wikipedia

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   The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9 , was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their ...

4. Copland (operating system) - Wikipedia

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   It was intended to be released with the name System 8, and later after changing their naming style, Mac OS 8. [1] Planned as a modern successor to the aging System 7 , Copland introduced protected memory , preemptive multitasking , and several new underlying operating system features, while retaining compatibility with existing Mac applications.

5. Classic Mac OS - Wikipedia

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   Mac OS 8.1 last Mac OS release to run on a 68k processor, and it added support for USB on the iMac and added support for the HFS+ filesystem, also called Mac OS Extended Mac OS 8.5 first version to run solely on a PowerPC processor, and it added built-in support for FireWire. It also added Sherlock and added support for the Power Macintosh G3 ...

6. List of Apple operating systems - Wikipedia

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   The original operating system for the Macintosh was the classic Mac OS, which was introduced in early 1984 as System Software. In 1997, System Software was renamed Mac OS. In 1999, Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released, followed by Mac OS X 10.0, the first consumer release of the Mac OS X.

7. macOS - Wikipedia

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   [8] Mac OS X succeeded classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001. Its underlying architecture came from NeXT's NeXTSTEP, as a result of Apple's acquisition of NeXT, which also brought Steve Jobs back to Apple. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released on March 24, 2001.

8. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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   macOS (originally Mac OS X) Apple Inc. 2001 NeXTSTEP, BSD: 15.1 October 28, 2024 Bundled with hardware; No cost for updates and upgrades via Mac App Store for users of Mac OS X 10.6 or later Proprietary higher level API layers; open source core system (Apple Silicon-Intel-PowerPC versions): APSL, GNU GPL, others Workstation, personal computer ...

9. Mac OS Roman - Wikipedia

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   Mac OS Roman is an extension of the original Macintosh character set, which encoded only 217 characters. [1] Full support for Mac OS Roman first appeared in System 6.0.4 , released in 1989, [ 2 ] and the encoding is still supported in current versions of macOS , though the standard character encoding is now UTF-8 .