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Classic Mac OS was certainly interesting.

The original Macintosh didn't have the RAM for multitasking, so the OS was built to run one application at a time and each application had most of the system's memory. When multitasking was added, each app had to be given a fixed amount of memory as they didn't “ask for more memory” like programs on modern systems do. This resulted in a lot of bugs and crashes.

Rhapsody is actually an early version of Mac OS X, built on top of the NeXTSTEP operating system which had much better multitasking capabilities. It looks similar to Classic because they didn't have the Aqua theme ready yet, so they ported the Platinum theme over from Mac OS 8-9.

rdococ wrote:

Classic Mac OS was certainly interesting.

The original Macintosh didn't have the RAM for multitasking, so the OS was built to run one application at a time and each application had most of the system's memory. When multitasking was added, each app had to be given a fixed amount of memory as they didn't “ask for more memory” like programs on modern systems do. This resulted in a lot of bugs and crashes.

Rhapsody is actually an early version of Mac OS X, built on top of the NeXTSTEP operating system which had much better multitasking capabilities. It looks similar to Classic because they didn't have the Aqua theme ready yet, so they ported the Platinum theme over from Mac OS 8-9.

Yea, I suggested for him to include Rhapsody bc I feel like it's still technically pre-Mac OS X and i thought it was interesting lol

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The original Mac didn't have much ROM space, to the point where they even had a mascot in the works that never saw the light of day because they literally didn't have enough space left to add an image. It still exists, printed on a prototype Mac motherboard PCB, which is presumably somewhere at either Apple Park or one of the Infinite Loop buildings.

Also, as a result of having so little space, the code was optimized to take up as little space as possible, which made it really hard to maintain and lead to Apple looking for alternatives in the mid 1990s, resulting in their purchase of NeXT (for their OS, NeXTSTEP) and Steve Jobs' return to Apple.

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