History of Mac OS As Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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the world in 1984 mercifully didn't look quite like what George Orwell envisioned
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in his famous dystopian novel however something did happen that year the very
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first Apple Macintosh was released giving average people the chance to own
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their very own personal computer with a graphical user interface or guey for the
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low price of just
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$2,495 and while that may seem steep especially for the dollar value back
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then it was a breakthrough at the time since Apple's previous goey based
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computer the Lisa sold for 10 grand so
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it was no big surprise that it was the Mac instead that popularized the concept
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of using a mouse to click on what you want instead of having to type
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everything into a Dos style command line but as Innovative as a mainstream gooey
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for home users was the original macOS wasn't without its shortcomings although
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it introduced the now familiar file folder the first macOS file system
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didn't truly support nested directories Doss actually did this prior to the
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release of the first Mac and while the original Mac was also incapable of
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multitasking for the most part it's more intuitive interface compared to command
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line operating systems paved the way for goys to become standard in home PCS in
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fact there was some pretty messy litigation that went on after Microsoft
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licensed elements of macOS users interface for early versions of Windows
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as Apple claimed that Microsoft borrowed beyond the license terms but although
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Apple pioneered the home PC goe it didn't really change a whole lot aside
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from incremental performance improvements until the release of System
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7 in 1991 which made True Color
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rendering a standard feature for the first time removed the old 8 megabyte
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RAM limit thanks to 32-bit support added the true type fonts which would make it
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much easier to tell what a print out would look like added virtual memory
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true multitasking and the all important drag and drop functionality we've all
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come to take for granted today System 7 was also the first macOS to support
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those power pie PC processors that remained one of the core differentiators
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between Mac and IBM PC compatibles or wiel machines until 2006 and although
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the move to power PC meant an increase in performance compared to older Macs
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application support for the Mac platform still lagged behind winel computers this
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meant that Apple was facing a decline in profit for several years but they
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started to reverse their fortunes by Rolling Out macOS 8 in 1997 which
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featured an actual color interface like the ones we're accustomed to seeing
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today a customizable background and Native ability to search the web
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speaking of which this was the first macOS to include a default browser but no
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not Safari Internet Explorer as per an
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agreement with Microsoft macOS 9 released a couple years later featured
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things like 128bit encryption support
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and better voice recognition but a massive change came in 2001 when the now
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ubiquitous OSX made its debut osx's
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underlying code was completely different from all other MACC OS versions in order
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to be more attractive to third party software developers of course there were
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plenty different for the average user as well including much sleeker interface
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called aqua that sort of foreshadowed the what Microsoft would later do with
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XP later that year more stable multitasking systemwide spellchecking
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and of course revisions all named after big scary cats for whatever reason
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instead of releasing all new operating systems every few years years Apple has
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focused on incremental improvements to OSX since 2001 with features like DVD
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playback multi-user switching and 64-bit
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support being added over time OSX tiger
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released in 2005 was a particularly important revision as tiger was the
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first version of macOS to support the new 64-bit Intel chips that started
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making their way into Apple PCS the very next year macOS's mve toward support
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for x86-64 has made it a more popular
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program for software Developers meaning OSX has carved out a nice niche for
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