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There are brands that leave their mark and become synonymous with benefits, performance and, why not, also luxury; BMW in the case of cars, or Chanel for clothes and perfumes and, in the case of computers, smartphones Y tablets, Apple's bitten apple.

If we talk about computers, Apple is a brand always to be taken into account, and although initially it had a wide range of models, these have been reduced to one name: Mac.

The first Apple Mac was introduced in 1984, after five years of development.

The team The Mac had competed against Steve Jobs's development, the Apple Lisa, beating the latter for being a draft much cheaper and aimed at a wider audience.

Despite the fact that Jobs had bet on the Lisa and despised the Mac, he did not hesitate to appropriate the project that in the end It was the winner, and not only within Apple, but also commercially, following the impulses of its supercharged ego.

Mac, by the way, comes from McIntosh, Jef Raskin's favorite apple type.

The first Mac was based on a Motorola 68000 microprocessor, accompanied by 128 KB of RAM and a three-and-a-half-inch floppy drive.

The Mac was the first computer to mount floppy disks of that size, which became an industry standard for computing a posteriori.

Also, curiously and surely without realizing it, the original Mac had the Format of modern computers all-in-one, gathering in a single body both the screen and the CPU.

The operating system used by the Macintosh was not revolutionary, but it laid the foundation for the company's future software platforms:

The Mac OS has continued to evolve and survives today, having gone through the name MacOS, Mac OS X, and recovering the name again with the current macOS

(Note the differentiations that are made with uppercase, lowercase and spaces).

The Mac was so successful that it led Apple to integrate the rest of its computers along the same lines, even converting copies of Lisa into Macs with hardware additional and, from here, only continue to develop this line of computers.

The rest is history, and although we are talking about the original Mac here, it is worth mentioning some changes that this platform has undergone, starting with

the changes in the processor, which have taken it from the Motorola 68xxx to the Power PC (1994), and from there to the x86-64 architecture with Intel chips (2006).

These were very well managed by the development team, providing tools for the execution of programs in compatibility mode, so that whoever acquired the new Platform of hardware, I could continue using the same software always.

And we also have the change of operating system, from the classic Mac OS to Mac OS X, produced in the year 2000.

The old Mac OS could no longer be updated to support evolving technologies, so it was decided cut and bet on another platform, saving, yes -and as we have already seen- backwards compatibility to allow executing the software available.

After several failed projects to try to give birth to this new operating system, the acquisition of NeXT (a company founded by Steve Jobs after his departure from Apple), allowed Apple to acquire NeXTSTEP, the acquired company's UNIX-based operating system, which became the foundation of the Mac OS X.

In terms of designMacs have also evolved and gone through various phases, and like the original iMac, they have become award winners and benchmarks for the design world at the time.

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