Differences between version 5 and predecessor to the previous major change of MacOS.
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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:43:48 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Monday, October 28, 2002 4:24:03 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-Apple Macintoshes run their own OperatingSystem, also made by apple. They are collectively known as MacOS, although there are several major versions.
-Version 7 was around at the time of windows 3.1, but everyone chose the inferior system anyway... Versions 8.5 through to all versions of 9 is the more familiar look and feel, and the latest, [Mac OS X|MacOSX] (pronounced OS ten) is a complete re-write that has a FreeBSD and Mach based kernel.
+InNeedOfRefactor
-I think version 8 coincided with
Apple's move from
[Motorola] [680x0
] [CPU]s
to [PowerPC] [CPU
]s
.
+[
Apple|AppleCorporation] [Macintoshes|AppleMacintosh] run their own OperatingSystem, also made by [Apple|AppleCorporation]. They are collectively known as MacOS, although there are several major versions.
+Version 7 was around at the time of windows 3.1, but everyone chose the inferior system anyway... Versions 8.5 through to all versions of 9 is the more familiar look and feel, and the latest, [Mac OS X|MacOSX] (pronounced OS ten) is a complete re-write that has a FreeBSD and Mach based kernel.
+
+Initially written for the
[Motorola] [68000|68000
] [CPU], the later versions (up until [Mac OS X|MacOSX]) never supported such things as ProtectedMemory. Support for the [PowerPC] was hacked in
to System 7.5. The promised rewrite for the
[PowerPC] (codenamed
[Copland]) was supposed to be System 8, but it was so late that eventually [Apple] cancelled it and bought [NeXT] instead. The [NeXT] engineers effectively rewrote [NeXTStep], incorporating a few features from [Copland] (such as [Carbon]) and took so long that [Apple|AppleCorporation] might as well have just finished [Copland
].
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