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Introduction ............................................................................................... - 4 -
Microsoft .................................................................................................... - 5 -
Bill Gates .................................................................................................................... - 6 -
Biography ..................................................................................................................- 6 -
Microsoft operation systems .................................................................................... - 8 -
MS-DOS (1981-2000) .................................................................................................- 8 -
Windows 1.0x (1985) .................................................................................................- 8 -
Windows 2.xx (1987)..................................................................................................- 9 -
Windows 3.0 (1990) ................................................................................................. - 10 -
Windows 3.1x (1992) ............................................................................................... - 10 -
Windows 95/95A (1995/1996) .................................................................................. - 11 -
Windows 95B/C (1996/1997).................................................................................... - 12 -
Windows 98/98SE (1998/1999) ................................................................................ - 12 -
Windows Millennium Edition [ME] (2000) ................................................................. - 12 -
Windows XP (2001) .................................................................................................. - 13 -
Windows Vista (2007) .............................................................................................. - 14 -
Apple........................................................................................................ - 15 -
Steven Paul Jobs ...................................................................................................... - 16 -
Biography ................................................................................................................ - 16 -
Apple/NeXT operation systems ............................................................................... - 18 -
Apple DOS 3.x (1978-1983) ....................................................................................... - 18 -
Apple ProDOS (1984) ............................................................................................... - 18 -
System 1.0/1.1 (1984) .............................................................................................. - 18 -
System 2.x (1985) .................................................................................................... - 19 -
System 3.x (1986/1987) ........................................................................................... - 20 -
System 4.x/5.x (1987)............................................................................................... - 20 -
NeXTStep [not Apple] (1989) .................................................................................... - 21 -
Mac OS System 7.x (1991-1997)................................................................................ - 21 -
Mac OS 8.x (1997) .................................................................................................... - 22 -
Mac OS 9 (1999) ...................................................................................................... - 22 -
Mac OS X 10.x (2001-) .............................................................................................. - 23 -
Conclusion ................................................................................................ - 24 -
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Timeline ................................................................................................... - 26 -
Bibliography ............................................................................................. - 27 -
Images: .................................................................................................................... - 27 -
Title/Preface:........................................................................................................... - 27 -
Bill Gates ................................................................................................................. - 27 -
Steve Jobs ............................................................................................................... - 28 -
Websites .................................................................................................................. - 29 -
Bill Gates ................................................................................................................. - 29 -
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disabled anymore. System 7 was more stable and had many new functions. Such a new
function were the “aliases” a similar function which is also included in newer versions
of Windows named “shortcuts”. With this you were able to create an alias and run the
linked program.
Mac OS 8.x (1997)
Mac OS 8 was planned as Mac
OS 7.7 but it was renamed to
make the contracts to third
party
manufactures
of
Macintosh
clones,
which
allowed them to create their
own Macs, unusable.
Shortly after the release of
Mac OS 8 Steve Jobs was back
as CEO at Apple because his
company “NeXT” was bought by Apple. It had a redesigned GUI (Graphical User
Interface) which allowed themes or skins to change the look of Mac OS. Apple sold
Mac OS 8 more than 1 million times in the first two weeks and three million times
within six months. Mac OS 8.1 brought the new Hierarchical File System Plus (HSF+)
which removed many limitations of the previous HSF file system.
Mac OS 9 (1999)
Mac OS 9 had many improvements to OS
8.1 such as a large list of USB drivers or
better memory management. It got a
simple multi-user support and provided
on-the-fly encryption of the hard disk.
The
own
AppleScript
(A
scripting
language by Apple) got enhanced with
network features. Mac OS 9 had many
Image s8: Mac OS System 8.0
Image s9: Mac OS System 9.0
