Système 7 is the name given to the seventh major revision of the Operating system of the computers Apple Macintosh. It is the last time that it takes the name Système . Thereafter, the operating systems of Macintosh will be called Mac OS .
It is the first true major change of the system Macintosh, making an significant improvement of the user interface, an improvement of stability and many news functionalities. During its appearance, in 1991, System 7 brought mainly the possibility of using out of standard several applications at the same time, although the Système 6, with the assistance of the extension system MultiFinder , allowed it to a certain extent.
The last version preceded already mainly the Mac OS 8 which failed besides to be called Système 7.7 . In particular, the screen of starting comprises already the mention Mac OS (since version 7.5), this more clearly to mark separation between the operating system and the computers compatible Macintosh, Apple having decided into 1995 to authorize other manufacturers to manufacture compatible computers Macintosh functioning under Mac OS.
The history of System 7 was particularly turbid starting from the versions 7.5.1, which brought the support of Macintosh equipped with a bus NCV. One long period of more or less unstable versions was followed from there, the calm one returning really only starting from System 7.6.
System 7 brought the color to Macs, and broke with the sobriety of the previous versions. Such an amount of and so that still today, there exist " fanatiques" system 6 which considers that the posterior versions did not cease a " to break with the Mac" spirit;.
History of the versions
- at the beginning of 1991: System 7.0
- October 1991: System 7.0.1
- March 1992: System 7.0.1 Tune-up
- August 1992: System 7.1
- October 1993: System 7.1.1 (or System 7 Pro)
- March 1994: System 7.1.2
- at the beginning of 1995: System 7.5 (Mozart)
- March 1995: System 7.5.1
- August 1995: System 7.5.2
- January 1996: System 7.5.3
- May 1st, 1996: System 7.5.3 Revision 2
- August 7th, 1996: System 7.5.3 Revision 2.1 and 2.2
- September 27th, 1996: System 7.5.5
- January 7th, 1997: System 7.6 (Harmony)
- April 7th, 1997: System 7.6.1
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