May 13, 1997: System 8 Demoed




This Day in Apple History show

Summary: Apple had ditched the System 7.7 iteration of Mac OS in an effort to kill the clone makers. That didn't stop the software from actually showing up renamed as System 8.0. System 8.0 featured many improvements to System 7.6--a multithreaded finder, an appearance manager and some under-the-hood optimizations.…