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A brief history of disk images on the Mac

Summary by eclecticlight.co
Disk images, files that contain the contents of a physical storage medium, go back long before the first Mac. Among other tasks, they were originally used to contain representations of floppy disks for replication in manufacture. Today disk images are at the heart of macOS, and widely used by third-parties. They’re an essential part of macOS installers, home to Recovery mode, and the basis for cryptexes. They’ve been used to burn and replicate o…
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eclecticlight.co broke the news in on Saturday, April 5, 2025.
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