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Macintosh Operating System
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The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is
into the core of the OS with the introduction of System 7.0 in
1990.
The Macintosh series provides a built-in graphics language,
developers.
Mac OS 8, scheduled for delivery in July 1997, contains a
number of significant improvements, including new
human-interface features, increased system stability and
performance, a
PowerPC processor-native Finder, tighter
integration of
Internet access through panel-based
"assistants," Personal Web Sharing, and the ability to run
Mac OS X ("X" for 10) is based on
FreeBSD. Apple released
(2002-06-29)