The original form of what Apple would later name the 'Mac OS' was the integral and unnamed system software first introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh, usually referred to simply as the System software.Īpple deliberately downplayed the existence of the operating system in the early years of the Macintosh to help make the machine appear more user-friendly and to distance it from other operating systems such as MS-DOS, which were portrayed as arcane and technically challenging. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface.
(formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) for their Macintosh line of computer systems. Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc.
