Mac OS

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Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer?s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. The original Mac OS was the first commercially successful operating system which used a graphical user interface. The Macintosh team that designed and built the original Macintosh hardware and software included Bill Atkinson, Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, George Crow, Burrell Smith, Jerry Manock, Jef Raskin and Andy Hertzfeld.

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Apple Computer?s - Operating systems - Macintosh - Graphical user interface - Hardware - Software - Bill Atkinson - Chris Espinosa - Joanna Hoffman - George Crow - Burrell Smith - Jerry Manock - Jef Raskin - Andy Hertzfeld

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There are a variety of views on how the Macintosh was developed and where the underlying ideas originated. While the connection between the Macintosh and the Alto project at Xerox PARC has been established in the historical record, the earlier contributions of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad and Doug Engelbart's On-Line System are no less significant. See History of the GUI, and Apple v. Microsoft.

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Xerox PARC - Ivan Sutherland - Sketchpad - Doug Engelbart - On-Line System - History of the GUI - Apple v. Microsoft

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Apple deliberately played up the existence of the operating system in the early years of the Macintosh to help make the machine appear more user-friendly and to distance it from other systems such as MS-DOS, which were portrayed as arcane and technically challenging. Apple wanted Macintosh to be portrayed as a system "for the rest of us".

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