Jean-Louis Gassée, a Silicon Valley veteran, is currently general partner for the venture capital firm Allegis Capital in Palo Alto. Operating systems don't age well. Some have better genes than ...

Artist Matt Sephton wanted to create 1-bit images in the style of classic Macintosh art, and did the most extra thing to achieve it: he got Apple’s System 7 OS, the operating system that powered the ...

So what's the big deal about Mac OS X, the new Macintosh operating system Apple plans to start selling on Saturday? Mac true believers may resent the analogy, but think of it as the Apple equivalent ...

It’s not quite like running the classic Macintosh OS straight in your browser, but one inventive developer has built an app that lets you experience MacOS 8.1 as if you were running it on a 1991 ...

Macintosh servers and workstations might not be the black sheep of network and systems management any longer. The reason, IT executives say, is that a new version of Apple’s Unix-based operating ...

Here's how to step back in time with a virtual Mac running OS 8, complete with apps of the day, and favorite features like WindowShade and 3D folder icons, in a self-contained application within macOS ...

Back when Ars Senior Products Editor Andrew Cunningham was forced to work in Mac OS 9 by his colleagues in September 2014, he quickly hit a productivity wall. He couldn’t log in to his Ars e-mail or ...