Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever.

Get an FTP client (such as Fetch 4.0.3 for OS 8 or 9--available here) and then connect to the OS X machine using the FTP protocol which was enabled on the OS X machine. Connecting to the OS 9 machine ...

Black-and-white versions of System 6 and 7 show off what early Mac OS was like. Read the whole story ...

Sure, Mac OS X is a state-of-the-art operating system. But that doesnu2019t mean it couldnu2019t stand to learn a lesson or three from its predecessor. John Gruber explains.

If you have a Mac capable of running Classic (i.e., not an Intel-based Mac) but either reformatted the drive and installed only Mac OS X, or acquired the machine with only Mac OS X installed, you ...

Classic reached the end of its life in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger; later versions of Mac OS X don’t include Classic, and Classic doesn’t run on Intel machines at all. If, like me, you still have an older ...

The next major update to Apple Computer's Mac OS 9 has passed its first testing milestone. The product, known inside the company as Fortissimo, will incorporate new drivers, new interface elements ...

The current Mac operating system—which launched in 2001, 23 years ago, as Mac OS X—has been around longer than the "Classic" OS, which Apple offered for a total of 16 years.

Up until OS X 10.7, if you had an Intel Mac, you could still run a 1984 Mac application via Rosetta emulating the PPC CPU and running "classic" OS 9, which in turn ran the Mac 68k emulator to run ...