It features PowerPC native versions of QuickDraw, AppleScript, and the Sherlock search utility. Mac OS 8.5 is the first version of the Mac OS to require a PowerPC processor. Mac OS 8.1 introduces a new, more efficient file system named HFS Plus. Mac OS 8.0 introduces the most visible changes in the line-up, including the Platinum interface and a native PowerPC multithreaded Finder. As it came at a difficult time in Apple's history, many pirate groups refused to traffic in the new OS, encouraging people to buy it instead. Mac OS 8 is one of Apple's most commercially successful software releases, selling over 1.2 million copies in the first two weeks. Mac OS 8 helped modernize the Mac OS while Apple developed its next-generation operating system, Mac OS X (renamed in 2012 to OS X and later in 2016 to macOS). Released over a series of updates, Mac OS 8 represents an incremental integration of many of the technologies which had been developed from 1988 to 1996 for Apple's overly ambitious OS named Copland. It emphasizes color more than prior versions. It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before.
Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer, Inc.
