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Captain (videotex)
“Sent kanji as pictures when keyboards could not, and never quite found its audience.”
“It taught the world to point and click, then stepped aside with its trash can emptied.”
Classic Mac OS was the series of operating systems Apple Computer developed for 68k architecture, introduced with the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984. Internally called Lisa II and partially based on the Lisa OS of 1983, it popularized the graphical user interface and is credited with starting the computer industry in the 1980s. It set many of the standards the industry now takes for granted, and people loved
The system consisted of the Macintosh Toolbox ROM and the System Folder, a set of files loaded from disk, and it shipped with every Macintosh Apple sold, with updates arriving alongside each new machine. The Mac OS name came into official use in part due to Apple's Macintosh clone program, which ended after the release of Mac OS. By 2002, it had quietly retired, leaving behind a computing world it helped invent.
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