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Mac OS 8
Mac OS 8 · Classic Mac OS
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Identifiers
| Order number | Mac OS 8 |
Reference
| Original price | $99 |
| Announced | 1997-07-26 |
| Discontinued | 1999-10-23 |
| Design era | Classic Mac OS |
Configurations
| Colors | — |
| Publisher | Apple Computer, Inc. |
| Release version | 8.0 → 8.1 |
| Media | CD-ROM + emergency boot floppy |
| Copy protection | None |
| Target OS / hardware | 68040 / PowerPC Macs |
| Removable media | CD-ROM |
Known quirks
- Platinum appearance, multithreaded Finder, contextual menus — the 'Copland lite' release
- First Mac OS with 'bought one copy, sell a million' distribution — 1.2M units first 2 weeks
- 8.1 added HFS+ support, critical for drives > 2 GB with small files
- Last release to support 68040; 8.5 went PPC-only