Released on = June 23, 2006, 4:43 am

Press Release Author = Nivea David

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = This is the operating system that runs on Macintosh
computers. It is pronounced, \"mack-oh-es.\"

Press Release Body = This is the operating system that runs on Macintosh computers.
It is pronounced, \"mack-oh-es.\" The Mac OS has been

around since the first Macintosh was introduced in 1984. Since then, it has been
continually updated and many new

features have been added to it. Each major OS release is signified by a new number
(i.e. Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9).

In 1994, Apple introduced the PowerMacs, which used the higher-performance PowerPC
chip designed by Apple,

Motorola and IBM. PowerMacs run native PowerPC applications and emulate traditional
Mac 680x0 applications.

PowerPC chips have enjoyed substantial increases in performance over the years.

The Mac came out in 1984, three years after the DOS-based PC. Its graphical
interface was more intuitive than DOS

commands, and it avoided the technical quagmire that arose when DOS users tried to
add a new device to their PCs.

The graphical user interface (GUI) was actually developed by Xerox and introduced on
its Star workstation in 1981.

Apple borrowed heavily from the Star, and subsequently, others copied the Mac,
moving the GUI down the line to

Windows, OS/2 and UNIX.

This is the operating system that runs on Macintosh computers. It is pronounced,
\"mack-oh-es.\" The Mac OS has been

around since the first Macintosh was introduced in 1984. Since then, it has been
continually updated and many new

features have been added to it. Each major OS release is signified by a new number
(i.e. Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9).

Since the core of the Mac OS was nearly decades old, Apple decided to completely
revamp the operating system. In

March of 2001, Apple introduced a completely new version of the Mac OS that was
written from the ground up. The

company dubbed it \"Mac OS X,\" correctly pronounced \"Mac OS 10.\" Unlike earlier
versions of the Mac OS, Mac OS

X is based on the same kernel as Unix and has many advanced administrative features
and utilities. Though the operating

system is much more advanced than earlier versions of the Mac OS, it still has the
same ease-of-use that people have

come to expect from Apple software.

The Macintosh interface was immediately popular with non-technical people. Instead
of typing in a command to delete a

file as in DOS, you could drag it to the on-screen trashcan. Although common today,
it was a breakthrough to have such

capability on a personal computer in the 1980s.

Unlike the PC, the Mac is Apple\'s proprietary technology, and except for a brief
period, Apple prevented a Macintosh

clone industry from developing and growing (see Macintosh parts). Apple maintained
its sole source vendor status while

the PC industry had thousands of vendors.

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