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 ...

OS X changed the game for Apple. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac OS X, the most important piece of software in Apple history, turns 20 today. Going on sale in its full, public version on March 24, ...

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 ...

Illustration: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac July 22, 1997: Apple launches Mac OS 8, its next-gen operating system for Macintosh computers. The OS introduces a new three-dimensional look and makes surfing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re interested in converting to the shiny bitten Apple, or have recently taken a bite yourself, you should know that Macs natively run on macOS, short for (surprise) Mac operating system. Folks ...