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It was first leaked version of the Macintosh operating system. This version was the base for the Tour disk that came with the original Macintosh, and a non-tour version exists but boots only on special development hardware.
[[image:SDMP(UNKNOWN).jpg|thumb|System 0.85 standalone version]]
'''Features'''
* System icons are of a prototype Macintosh with a Twiggy drive.
* Folder icons are round.
* The about box scene is much more simpler, done in MacPaint by Susan Kare, and is in the code, NOT a resource.
* The Alternate disk (Unknown Disk) system is present
* Grim Reaper icon in resources (unused)
'''Bugs'''
* Key Caps crashes the machine and sometimes corrupts the display memory.
* Alternate Disk system, although unusually unscrapped, goes to the RAM. Opening a application destroys this data.
* Scroll bars do not grey out when there is no scroll space.
* Doesn't work with many applications.

Revision as of 04:15, 26 July 2020


MacOS/System 0.85
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System 0.85
Codename
Preliminary name
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CPU architecture ?
Release date 1984-01-24
Preceded by ?
Succeeded by System 0.97


It was first leaked version of the Macintosh operating system. This version was the base for the Tour disk that came with the original Macintosh, and a non-tour version exists but boots only on special development hardware.

File:SDMP(UNKNOWN).jpg
System 0.85 standalone version

Features

  • System icons are of a prototype Macintosh with a Twiggy drive.
  • Folder icons are round.
  • The about box scene is much more simpler, done in MacPaint by Susan Kare, and is in the code, NOT a resource.
  • The Alternate disk (Unknown Disk) system is present
  • Grim Reaper icon in resources (unused)

Bugs

  • Key Caps crashes the machine and sometimes corrupts the display memory.
  • Alternate Disk system, although unusually unscrapped, goes to the RAM. Opening a application destroys this data.
  • Scroll bars do not grey out when there is no scroll space.
  • Doesn't work with many applications.