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When did the first mac os come out and what was special about it?
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∙ 14y ago
1984, I believe. It was the first operating system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), aside from the Apple Lisa, which was a commercial failure. The technology was bought or borrowed from Xerox.
Note: A graphical user interface is an interface with the mouses, buttons, desktop, icons, etc., like most computers are, nowadays. Before that, you had to use DOS (Disk Operating System), which consisted of primarily typing and reading words, very few nice pictures.
Although the operating system was strictly only black and white colors, it was quite a revolution in computing.
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