OS X may be retired, but it deserves to be remembered. Take a trip back with these 14 key milestones in the double-decade history of the operating system that helped transform a nearly bankrupt Apple ...

The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD. On Sept. 13, 2000, Apple released its Mac OS X Public Beta, a limited-time trial run of the ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple launching Mac OS X, the operating system that serves as the foundation of modern-day macOS. Apple released a public beta of Mac OS X in September 2000, and ...

We’ve seen a System 7 Mac emulator before, as an app, but a developer has now created a version which runs directly in a web browser … System 7 was the first classic Mac OS system to be later renamed ...

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 ...

Many people remember Mac OS X 10.6.8 fondly. Not just 10.6 Snow Leopard, but particularly its very mature 10.6.8 release, the final one in that series. It’s considered a stable and perfectly fine ...

At an event in California today, Apple head honcho Steve Jobs showed off a new version of Mac OS X. As many predicted, the operating system will go by the name OS X Lion, but Jobs also announced that ...

Copland never saw the light of day. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac April 26, 1996: Mac OS Copland, Apple’s eagerly anticipated but much-delayed operating system for the Macintosh, suffers a fatal blow ...