A Brief History of the Mac OS (Old Video - Archived)

This archived CC video will show the changes in major, and some minor, system updates between Macintosh System 1 to Mac OS 9.1.

[ComputerClan]

@popaname If you are looking for the other History of the Mac OS series I was doing, I removed it because it didn't comply with Partnership standards.

[ComputerClan]

@Dell0304 If you want to know all of that stuff, you can watch the video I talked about in the beginning. And it's kind of flipping around now.

[ComputerClan]

@Rifalltoo Honestly, I didn't know all of the big changes they made either. That is until I did a bunch of research and emulated the old systems.

[ComputerClan]

@almann1117 I was actually going to do part 2 a while ago, but I'll do part to when 10.8 previewed.

[ComputerClan]

Fair enough, but what's an Alt Code?

[ComputerClan]

You're basically missing the point, but answering your own question at the same time. Of course people were paying more money for a better design. MP3 players, to be honest, were mostly crap. Small (or no) screens, a terrible interface, buttons that took forever to navigate through your list of songs, no music marketplace, and not a lot of storage. The iPod was so much easier to use, it had more storage, and iTunes became the largest digital music store ever. That's why people liked it more.

[ComputerClan]

@1536mbComedy By far. Apple's first GUI system was the Lisa Office System, and that was released in 1983. Windows 1 didn't come out until 1985, and that system failed. Windows 3.1 was the first good version of Windows, and that wasn't released until 1992.

[ComputerClan]

You can only run those things because of third-party programs. Windows does not have support for that natively.

[ComputerClan]

Well, not exactly. Microsoft didn't "steal" anything. Whether or not they "copied" Apple is up to you, but according to the court, they did not violate any laws or contracts enough to have charges pressed against them. Also, the quote is "Good artists copy, great artists steal, " and it is, in fact, by Pablo Picasso, not Steve Jobs.

[ComputerClan]

It's a song called Passing Through from a site called Soundzabound.

[ComputerClan]

Then could I say I hate Windows because it doesn't run APP files? Or DMGs, or ISOs, or VHDs, or standard RAW image files, or MOVs, etc.

[ComputerClan]

So??? What's wrong with that? It is. Windows is based off of the NT kernel, and older versions ran on top of DOS.

[ComputerClan]

Mac OS X is not just based on FreeBSD. OS X is based on Darwin, an Apple-designed kernel, which has some FreeBSD components in it. And Linux is not a Unix distro. It is a Unix-Like OS, but not a real Unix OS.

[ComputerClan]

What's that have to do with this video, exactly?

[ComputerClan]

Not officially, but you could look at it that way.

[ComputerClan]

Hmmm, I don't think GEM came out before Apple's GUIs. The first release of GEM (GEM/1) shipped in 1985. Apple's first GUI system was in 1983, and their biggest hit was in 1984.

Regarding NeXT, yes, we have one video on that, but we're also working on a huge documentary about the history of the Macintosh.

[sapphirestone]

I just love to come back and watch the old videos!! 👍

[ComputerClan]

Well, I would still say they are revolutionary. Every documentary, biography, etc, about Apple usually refers to those products as being "revolutionary." But, I would say that the original Macintosh system was the most revolutionary of them all because it helped start everything else.

[ComputerClan]

Sorry for your suffering. But you shouldn't hate the Mac, a lot of technologies came from it, the company, and the people that developed it all.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

2:54 The new HFS filesystem debuted in 1985, I believe, with Apple’s first hard-drive product, the HD20. There was a separate file called “HD20 Startup” that you put into your system installation, that would patch in the new filesystem support at boot time.

This new filesystem was built into the Mac Plus in 1986. Since it was now in ROM, the machine could now boot off an HFS-formatted volume, which previous Macs couldn’t.