While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

When Apple released System 7 three decades ago on May 13, 1991, it was the biggest change to the Mac since the start. While it came with some problems, it also brought us features we still use today.

The Basilisk II emulator can be used to run old versions of Mac OS 8 and System 7 on a modern Mac. Here's how to get started using it. Before macOS and OS X, there was Mac OS 9, and before that were ...

April 7, 1997: Apple’s System 7 operating system receives its last update with the shipment of Mac OS 7.6.1. The update brings a few bug fixes and support for Apple’s new PCI Power Macs and the ...

If you’re an old school Apple fan, you may well remember the Cairo font. Cairo shipped with every version of macOS from 1984 through System 7.1. It was computer history’s first “dingbats” font in ...

across three of the four processor families spanned by the Macintosh line of computers since their introduction in 1984. You can see in the lead photo the success, where the Mac OS 8 search tool ...

Andy Hertzfeld says he’s as rocked today as he was on January 24, 1984, the day Steve Jobs unveiled the original Macintosh. “It was incredible, like watching your baby come into the world and watching ...