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Article: What's Wrong with Today's OS?(Mac OS X) (Product Information)
- Article from:
- Macworld
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Copland. Be. Rhapsody. With Mac OS X, Apple's years-longsearch for a "modern" successor to the Mac OS finally appears to be over. But the roots of this quest may not make sense to most Mac users--after all, what's so bad about the Mac OS we know and love? Why has Apple spent years and millions of dollars trying to replace it?
Modern operating systems provide a computing experience that Mac users simply can't get: Systems almost never crash. User interfaces are always responsive, even when you've got several programs working in the background. Applications launch in a heartbeat. And most important, users can see and do several things at once.
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