4. The arrival of
Macintosh System 7.6
Time Line
heralds a new name -
- Mac OS -- and a
new game called
Waiting for Copland.
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appears, and becomes the abandon the wait for
gives Apple and first Microsoft Copland when Apple
Microsoft a few Windows so Window buys NeXT and
ideas to explore IBM Microsoft s NT adapts its operating
introduces system instead.
later. OS/2 1.1 Windows 3.1. appears
appears
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Linux is Windows 95 abandons its
Microsoft announces rs officially appears, t
its Operating old OS core
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OS/2, OS/2 line of Microsoft introduces
Step to reflect its
becomes an IBM operating Mac OS X.
product, and Finish origins systems
Microsoft gives its
graphical operating
system a different
name -- Windows NT
