System Requirements: 68040 or PowerPC processor, 12 MB of real RAM (and virtual memory up to 20 MB if you have less than 20 MB real RAM), and 195 MB of hard disk space
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Apple Order Number: n/a
Versions: 8.0
History: Mac OS 8 is a series of versions of the Mac OS that, although they introduced few remarkable new user features, supported a transition through major changes in the Apple Macintosh hardware platform. Its earliest release still supported "first generation" Macs with Motorola 680x0-family processors; its later releases ran on PowerPC G3 systems such as the early iMacs. It is most closely associated with the "second generation", "PowerPC"-labeled Macs that Apple sold in the interim. Version 8.0 was released on July 26, 1997. Improvements over System 7 include a multi-threaded Finder, the three-dimensional platinum appearance, and a number of performance related improvements to virtual memory, AppleScript execution times and system start-up times. Help was available in the form of an Info Center (by means of html pages stored on the user's hard drive, with links to the Internet), as well as previously used systems such as Balloon Help and Apple Guide.
History Source: Wikipedia
History Source Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8
