It features PowerPC native versions of QuickDraw, AppleScript, and the Sherlock search utility. Mac OS 8.5 is the first version of the Mac OS to require a PowerPC processor. Mac OS 8.1 introduces a new, more efficient file system named HFS Plus. Mac OS 8.0 introduces the most visible changes in the lineup, including the Platinum interface and a native PowerPC multithreaded Finder.
As it came at a difficult time in Apple's history, many pirate groups refused to traffic in the new OS, encouraging people to buy it instead. Mac OS 8 is one of Apple's most commercially successful software releases, selling over 1.2 million copies in the first two weeks. Mac OS 8 helped modernize the Mac OS while Apple developed its next-generation operating system, Mac OS X (renamed in 2012 to OS X and then in 2016 to macOS). Released over a series of updates, Mac OS 8 represents an incremental integration of many of the technologies which had been developed from 1988 to 1996 for Apple's overly ambitious OS named Copland. It places a greater emphasis on color than prior versions. It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before. Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997.
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