Nope, 90s. Win 9x era.
Here’s the thing - if Apple were to just sell the OS and not hardware (which they really can’t, if they allow cloning/commercial use of OS X on regular PC hardware - history says that few will buy it), OS X would have to cost *at least* $400 or more just to cover development costs.
Who’s going to buy a $400 operating system for their home computer????
Ahh, early to mid 90’s, upgrading from 3.1 to 95.
And having a dual boot with dos 5 and 6 and finally 6.22.
What a scam that was, but it put MS everywhere.
Apple HAD to do something if they wanted to stick around.
They did and they did.