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Apple's comeback started in earnest in 1998, with the introduction of the Bondi Blue iMac sporting the brand-new Mac OS 8.5. The iMac brought other changes, including new ROMs that made supporting OSes other than the original Mac OS much easier. This setup, referred to by Apple developers as "New World" after the tech note that first described it ("The Macintosh ROM Enters a New World"), put the majority of the classic Mac OS ROM in a file on the hard drive and officially made it possible to boot non-Apple OSes without workarounds.
Work on NeXTStep's renovation continued briskly, and in 1999, the first version of what would become the new Mac OS was released as ''Mac OS X Server 1.0'', better known to fans by the codename ''Rhapsody''. Rhapsody was something of a shock to veteran Mac users, combining bits of the Mac OS 8.0 interface with the far different NeXTStep 4.0 GUI. There was also no way to port classic Mac applications to Rhapsody at the time, forcing Apple to develop a subset of the old Mac APIs called "Carbon" that would allow properly made programs to work on both Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X. Carbon was announced in early 1998, and shipped along with the first releases of the OS X development tools in 1999. Along with carbon was Classic, an emulator for running Mac OS 9 inside OS X (which, by the way, [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
1999 also saw the release of Mac OS 9.0. 9.0 also added better text handling (including, finally, 255-character file name and Unicode support), the Disc Burning subsystem, and more. It would be the last major version of an OS that, by this time, had remained practically unchanged at its core for well over a decade.
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