October 17, 1998: System 8.5 Released

by Chris Seibold Oct 17, 2010

System 8.5 was Apple's first system that would run only on PowerPC hardware, instantly forcing obsolete status on all 68030- and 68040-based machines.

The wow factor of 8.5 centered around the inclusion of Sherlock, a search everywhere application that could find a file by name, by context or by searching one of six internet sites (users could add plug-ins to expand the number of sites). Under the hood improvements were manifold with System 8.5 and began to pave the way for OS X.

Mac OS 8.5 was released (CD only) for $99 on October 17, 1998.

Comments

I have a friend who still pines endlessly about how great 8.5 was. He loves OS X, but just basks in the nostalgia.

Cubert had this to say on Oct 23, 2008 Posts: 4
This was the first Apple OS I bought my performa came with 7.3 I think. It was a major update a lot changed and improved the stability of the system was much improved.

String had this to say on Oct 20, 2009 Posts: 4
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