Chapter 3. System Software
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Although your Mac's hardware is well designed and put together, it's the system software running your Mac that makes it distinct. After all, if Microsoft wanted to put the effort into it, the Redmond company could write a version of Windows that would run just fine on your Mac. (Of course, it would still be Windows, despite the great hardware it was running on.)
As we discussed in Chapter 1, Apple offers two versions of Macintosh system software: Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Mac OS 9.2.1 is the latest incarnation of the original Macintosh system software, which has a lineage going all the way back to 1984, making it exceptionally mature—and exceptionally vulnerable to certain ...
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