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> the surge of classic Mac OS to 7% for several months

I'm not sure what's up with listing both "OS X" and "macOS", but I'm quite confident it's not classic Mac OS.

This could be related to the re-versioning of macOS from 10.x to the year of the release.

Can you even have a successful TLS handshake with Mac OS 9 ?

There is a port of Mbed TLS to Classic MacOS[1] which has TLS 1.2 enabled but per the README.md probably not the right cihper suites (it only has AES-CBC ciphers enabled by default) to connect to servers configured per the widely-used Mozilla "intermediate" recommendations[2] (which require AES-GCM or ChaCha20 ciphers).

[1] https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS

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