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The System Folder is normally located directly below the root directory in the filesystem hierarchy, but does not need to be. The Mac OS identifies the "System Folder" by undocumented characteristics that are independent of its name (it has different names in non-English versions of the Mac OS), or its location in the directory hierarchy.
A client MacBook Air (lacking an optical drive) could then wirelessly connect to the other Mac or PC to perform system software installs. Remote Install Mac OS X was released as part of Mac OS X 10.5.2 on February 12, 2008. Support for the Mac mini was added in March 2009, allowing the DVD drive to be replaced with a second hard drive.
All versions of Classic Mac OS before System 2.1 used a flat file system, the Macintosh File System, which maintained all the files in a single list, however Finder provided the illusion of folders with records maintained in the Desktop file. [14] From System 2.1 onwards, the Macintosh File System was superseded by the Hierarchical File System ...
While the Macintosh System software already had competent file management, XTreeMac made it easier to move and copy files and added undeletion and enhanced file finding tools. [8] Also in 1989, the company ran a four-month "Software Amnesty for Everyone", allowing users of unauthorized copies of XTree to register them for a small fee.
In a similar feature, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager and REAL/32 will dynamically assign a drive letter L: to the load path of a loaded application, thereby allowing applications to refer to files residing in their load directory under a standardized drive letter instead of under an absolute path. [7]
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In Mac OS X, being based on BSD's UNIX-like kernel, the system architecture is vastly different from that in the classic Mac OS, and an application crash cannot usually bring down the entire system.
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