1. Macintosh Operating System system> Mac OS Apple Computer, Inc. s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder. " The multitasking version of Finder was called "MultiFinder" until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS with the introduction of System 7. 0 in 1990. The Macintosh series provides a built-in graphics language, called "QuickDraw", which provides a standard for software developers. Mac OS 8, scheduled for delivery in July 1997, contains a number of significant improvements, including new human-interface features, increased system stability and performance, a PowerPC processor-native Finder, tighter integration of Internet access through panel-based "assistants," Personal Web Sharing, and the ability to run Java applets and programs through Mac OS Run Time for Java Mac OS X "X" for 10 is based on FreeBSD. Apple released the kernel of Mac OS X Server as "darwin", under an open source license. See also Macintosh file system, Macintosh user interface.
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