
We all have our most favored machines of yesteryear; in this I assume that most people are like me, anyway. Breaking away from the mundane every-day news of boring (I jest) new technologies such as touchscreens the size of a wall and upcoming operating systems that support graphics cards with 1.5 GB of vRAM, take a walk down memory lane-- or "Neurological Alley" as I like to call it-- and take a look inside, outside, and in all of the nooks and crannies in between the circuits of the Macintosh Plus and its accompanying System 6, fresh from the splendor of 1986.
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2005-07-06
No MacOS until OSX had preemptive multitasking. The switch from cooperative to preemptive multitasking was one of the major features of 10.0.
The major feature change from System 6 to System 7 was getting rid of the switcher. System 7 was Mac's first real desktop OS, allowing easy use of more than one program at a time.