Let me honest right now. I have never used a Mac! Believe me. I really want to learn how to, but first I need to get one along with a manual. It may seem odd to a lot of people. The fact is that most people worldwide use Windows-based PC’s, so they never usually have any need to learn to use a Mac. So, what I did was to look up some information about the ‘Apple’.

Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based (GUI) operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their line of computer systems. The original Macintosh 128K was first introduced in 1984. Apple somewhat denied the existence of the OS in the early years to make the machine appear more user-friendly and to distance it from other operating systems such as MS-DOS and Windows.

Apple wanted Macintosh to be portrayed as a computer “for the rest of us”. It was not until the middle of the 1990’s that the term “Mac OS” was officially used. This term has since been applied to all versions of the Mac OS software as a way to refer to it when discussing it in context with other operating systems.

Earlier versions of the Mac OS were compatible only with Motorola 68000-based Macintoshes, while later versions were also compatible with the PowerPC (PPC) architecture. Most recently, Mac OS X has become compatible with Intel’s x86 architecture.

If you want to learn more about the Mac OS, do a search online. There is a lot more to it than I can really post here.