The thing is the way you wrote software for this new operating system was different from the way you wrong programs for the previous Mac OS versions, and with all this mature and in-use software out there, compatibility had to be maintained. This would be modified into a new version of the Macintosh operating system, known as Mac OS X. The plan quickly changed to buy out another operating system to use as a base and what was eventually chosen was NeXTStep, a UNIX-like operating system headed by, of all people, Steve Jobs. Projects to improve and upgrade the operating system ( Taligent, Copland, etc) didn’t go so well, and in combination with other factors damn near bankrupted Apple. To tell its story in simple form, it was a capable operating system but it had some design nuances that didn’t scale well as computers grew more powerful. The “Classic” Mac OS used in various forms from the original Macintosh introduced in 1984 all the way to Mac OS 9.2.2, released in 2001. The Macintosh operating system exists in 2 forms, historically. If not, I’ll leave some links for reading in the article, but I’ll hope to explain things well enough that it all makes sense on that alone. This article is going to be written presuming you at least know a bit about the history of the Macintosh and Mac OS X in the early years.
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