Mac OS X: The Future Is Now
When the Mac OS was first introduced back in 1984, it was a completely radical way of interacting with a computer. Rather than having to type long strings of arcane commands, a user could manipulate the system, files, documents, and data by simply pointing to icons and clicking. The success of the Mac OS drove the other PC-oriented operating systems to adopt a graphical user interface.
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Just to give credit where credit is due; the user interface made mainstream by the Mac was based on work done at Xerox. I guess that just goes to show that the inventor of something doesn't always get the most out of it.
Since that time, the Mac OS has undergone many improvements as it moved from early versions up to versions 8, ...
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