The Apple Menu now provides access to any application or file, not just Desk Accessories.

Marked with the icon of a blue speaker, just double-click the file to listen to it. Managing several applications at once is much easier with a dedicated Application Menu, and Show/Hide-ing helps make the most of your monitor.Īlso exciting is the new System 7 Sound document format. Whenever an Alias is opened, the Macintosh opens the original file for you, no matter where it is – even on a network server! Aliases look and behave exactly the same as the original file, but they only take up about 5 KB of disk space. Need your files to appear in several places at once? You can do that with Aliases. When activated, cartoon-like speech balloons appear wherever the user points to explain that item. Many new features greet you when you first boot System 7, some of which have no equal in modern operating systems.Computing help is only a mouse-point away with Balloon Help, System 7’s new help technology. System 7 employed both principles to great effect by introducing many new features while also improving the organization of existing elements. Proper organization is the other ingredient. Simplicity is one component, but the earliest microcomputers (like the Altair and Apple I) were far simpler and clearly less personable.

Jef Raskin wanted the Macintosh be be wholly devoted to its human user. The Macintosh was no longer a viable floppy-only system, but the real promise of the Macintosh was coming closer to fulfillment. With the introduction of System 7 in early 1991, a deep shift occurred in Macintosh computing. The early versions of System 7 provide broader capability for modern tasks than System 6 while still being practical for even the lowliest Macs.

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