Macintosh File System (MFS) is a volume format (or disk file system) created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks. MFS was introduced...
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These file systems have been the default file system of the Apple Macintosh: The Macintosh File System or MFS, 1984–1985, full support discontinued with...
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Apple's first hard disk drive for the Macintosh, replacing the Macintosh File System (MFS), the original file system which had been introduced over a year...
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Classic Mac OS (redirect from Macintosh System Software)
operating system consisted of the Macintosh Toolbox ROM and the "System Folder", a set of files that were loaded from disk. The name Macintosh System Software...
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System 7 (later named Mac OS 7) is the seventh major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. It...
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maintained in the Desktop file. From System 2.1 onwards, the Macintosh File System was superseded by the Hierarchical File System which allowed for multiple...
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HFS Plus (redirect from Macintosh Hierarchical File System Plus)
Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with...
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Finder (software) (redirect from Macintosh Finder)
default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems. Described in its "About" window as "The Macintosh Desktop...
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System 6 (or System Software 6) is the sixth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. It...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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The Macintosh "System 1" is the first major release of the classic Mac OS operating system. It was developed for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. System...
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original Motorola 68000 family implementation of the Macintosh operating system executes system calls using that processor's illegal opcode exception...
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original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded Mac OS in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered on Macintosh clones...
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Resource fork (redirect from Macintosh File Type Code)
programmer Bruce Horn. The resource fork has three purposes in classic Macintosh file systems: It stores all graphical data on disk until it is needed, then retrieved...
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Hierarchical File System (HFS), which uses a true directory structure on disks (as opposed to the earlier MFS, Macintosh File System in which all files were stored...
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early Apple Macintosh also featured a flat file system, the Macintosh File System. It was unusual in that the file management program (Macintosh Finder) created...
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The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Macintosh personal computer from Apple. It is the first successful mass-market all-in-one...
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Hierarchical File System (HFS). HFS, and the original Apple Macintosh file system MFS, allowed a file system object to have two kinds of forks: a data fork and...
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used until System 3 when separate control panel files ("cdev"s) were added, accessible solely through the control panel. With the debut of System 7 the control...
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The Macintosh startup sequence for Apple Macintosh (or Mac) computers includes hardware tests and diagnostics which can trigger the startup chimes and/or...
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with Macintosh System 1.1 but was able to run all versions of Mac OS up to System 4.1. It was replaced by the Macintosh 512Ke and the Macintosh Plus....
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Mac OS 8 (redirect from System 8 (Macintosh))
OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It includes...
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Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) is a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS operating system, written by Apple Computer. For Macintosh...
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file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...
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Hierarchical File System – Apple Macintosh file systems High Performance File System (HPFS) – on OS/2, eComStation and ArcaOS IceFS – IceFileSystem – optional...
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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Mac OS X Jaguar (redirect from Macintosh OS X Jaquar)
as file sharing, shared scanners, and printers, to the user. Mac OS X Jaguar Server 10.2.2 added journaling to HFS Plus, the native Macintosh file system...
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archetype of surrealistic humor in the corporate culture of the original Macintosh group, particularly as the mascot of Apple’s Developer Technical Support...
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computers, a local area networking system, a file server, and a networked laser printer. Apple announced Macintosh Office in January 1985 with a poorly...
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released, System 7 did not support multiple users. At Ease 2.0 and later provided an easy and safe way for Macintosh users to store personal files on their...
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