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unusual facts about Mac OS 8


System 8

Mac OS 8, a late 1990s version of the Macintosh operating system


Architecture of OS X

Rhapsody built on NEXTSTEP, porting the core system to the PowerPC architecture and adding a redesigned user interface based on the Platinum user interface from Mac OS 8.

DVD-RAM

Many operating systems like Mac OS (Mac OS 8.6 up to Mac OS X), Linux and Microsoft Windows XP can use DVD-RAM directly, while earlier versions of Windows require device drivers or the program InCD.


see also

NetBoot

Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS 9 use only BOOTP/DHCP to get IP information, followed by a TFTP transfer of the Mac OS ROM file.