Due to the radical changed however, Apple included their older OS 9 with each release of OS X until OS X Tiger (10.4) for backwards compatibility with the pre-OSX software on the market. This allowed for greater security and an added benefit for developers whom could more easily port their software from the better known server OS. Apple fundamentally changed its operating system with the release of OS X, instead basing it on the proven Unix architecture instead of their own technologies produced from scratch. When Apple changed to Power PC processors created by IBM, a third party solution via virtualization was used to run some older software on these newer machines. Early Macintosh computers ran using Motorolla Processors. The Macintosh computer currently have Mac OS X (Ten), version 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Mac OS is one of the first operating systems to have a mouse driven interface, and the one primarily responsible for its adoption into the mainstream. The Apple Macintosh computer has gone through many radical hardware revisions, and is the only computer legally licensed to run Mac OS. Mac OS is gaining popularity slowly (though having slightly more trouble with the recession) and the number 2 choice of ports of Might and Magic games.
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