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the world in 1984 mercifully didn't look quite like what George Orwell envisioned in his famous dystopian novel however something did happen that year the very first Apple Macintosh was released giving average people the chance to own their very own personal computer with a graphical user interface or GUI for the low price of just two thousand four hundred and ninety five dollars and while that may seem steep especially for the dollar value back then it was a breakthrough at the time since Apple's previous GUI based computer the Lisa sold for 10 grand so it was no big surprise that it was the Mac instead that popularized the concept of using a mouse to click on what you want instead of having to type everything into a DA style command line but as innovative as a mainstream GUI for home users was the original Mac OS wasn't without its shortcomings although it introduced the now-familiar file folder the first Mac OS file system didn't truly support nested directories das actually did this prior to the release of the first Mac and while the original Mac was also incapable of multitasking for the most part it's more intuitive interface compared to command line operating systems paved the way for gooeys to become standard in home pcs in fact there was some pretty messy litigation that went on after Microsoft licensed elements of Mac OS users interface for early versions of Windows as Apple claimed that Microsoft borrowed beyond the license terms but although Apple pioneered the home PC GUI it didn't really change a whole lot aside from incremental performance improvements until the release of system 7 in 1991 which made true color rendering a standard feature for the first time remove the old 8 megabyte RAM limit thanks to 32-bit support added the TrueType fonts which would make it much easier to tell what a printer would look like added virtual memory true multitasking and the all-important drag-and-drop functionality we've all come to take for granted today system 7 was also the first mac OS to support those PowerPC processors that remained one of the core differentiators between Macs and IBM pc compatibles or Wintel machines until 2006 and although the move to PowerPC meant an increase in performance compared to older Macs application support for the Mac platform still lagged behind Wintel computers this month that Apple was facing a decline in profit for several years but they started to reverse their fortunes by rolling out Mac OS 8 in 1997 which featured an actual color interface like the ones were accustomed to seeing today a customizable background and native ability to search the web speaking of which this was the first Mac OS to include a default browser but no not Safari Internet Explorer as per an agreement with Microsoft Mac OS 9 released a couple years later featured things like 128 bit encryption support and better voice recognition but a massive change came in 2001 when the now ubiquitous OS X made its debut OS X's underlying code was completely different from all other Mac OS versions in order to be more attractive to third-party software developers of course there were plenty different for the average user as well including much sleeker interface called aqua that's sort of foreshadowed the what microsoft would later do with XP later that year more stable multitasking system-wide spell-checking and of course revisions all named after big scary cats for whatever reason instead of releasing all new operating systems every few years Apple has focused on incremental improvements to OS X since 2001 with features like DVD playback multi-user switching and 64-bit support being added over time OS X Tiger released in 2005 was a particularly important revision as Tiger was the first version of Mac OS to support the new 64-bit Intel chips I started making their way into Apple pcs the very next year Mac OS has moved towards support for x86 64 has made it a more popular program for software developers meaning OS X has 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