In January 1981, Steve Jobs completely took over the Macintosh project.

Apple started the Taligent project in 1989, with the goal of building a NeXT-like operating system for the Macintosh, with collaboration from both HP and IBM.

Jef Raskin ( March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005 ) was an American human – computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

Raskin started the Macintosh project in 1979 to implement some of these ideas.

In 1981 Steve Jobs directed his attention to Raskin's Macintosh project, intending to marry the Xerox PARC-inspired GUI-based Lisa design to Raskin's appliance-computing, " computers-by-the-millions " concept.

NuBus was later selected by Apple Computer for use in their Macintosh II project, where its plug-n-play nature fit well with the Mac philosophy of ease-of-use.

The Cat was primarily the brainchild of Jef Raskin, originator of the Macintosh project at Apple in 1979.

He was part of the Aquarius project, a quad-core CPU project ( simulated on Apple's own Cray XMP-48 ) that was intended to become a 3D-based successor to the Macintosh.

In 1989, Gassée successfully killed a Claris project, ' Drama ', which aimed to start a new brand to sell low-end Macintosh computers.

However, SCARE is an ANSI / ISO C secondary clone of jAsea and the project has resulted in the ability to play ADRIFT games on several platforms including Linux, Windows, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga.

* XOM, former open-source project to make Windows XP or Windows Vista run on Intel Macintosh computers, now superseded by Apple's official Boot Camp solution

Copland was a project at Apple Computer to create an updated version of the Macintosh operating system.

" The project to port OpenStep to the Macintosh platform was named Rhapsody and was eventually released as Mac OS X, which, prior to the Intel release of Mac OS X 10. 4 ( Tiger ), also used the ' blue box ' concept in the form of Classic to run applications written for older versions of Mac OS.

MkLinux started as a project sponsored by Apple Computer and OSF Research Institute, to get " Linux on Mach " ported to the Macintosh computer and for Apple to explore alternative kernel technologies on the Mac platform.

In 2000 a project to recreate the DTSS system on a simulator was undertaken and as a result DTSS is now available for Microsoft Windows systems and for the Apple Macintosh computer.

Bill recommended him to Jef Raskin, who was looking for a hardware engineer to help him with his newly formed Macintosh project.

Jef Raskin initially tried to include such features in the Apple Macintosh, which he designed, but eventually the project went a quite different way.

The New World architecture was developed for the Macintosh Network Computer, an unrealized project that eventually contributed several key technologies to the first-generation iMac.

XBMC was another free and open software project started with re-purposing the Xbox as a home theater PC but has since been ported to Windows and Macintosh operating systems in various forms including Boxee and Plex.

Reality distortion field ( RDF ) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs ' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.

In 1979 and 1980, Jef Raskin's Macintosh project was a four-person research effort.

The precompiled versions available for download at Mini vMac's SourceForge project emulates a Macintosh Plus with 4 MiB of RAM.

Steve Jobs was concerned that those programming MacWrite were not going to be ready for the 1984 release date of the Macintosh ; he therefore commissioned a team of programmers to work independently on a similar project, which eventually became WriteNow.

Improving technology allowed the production of cheaper bitmapped displays, and WYSIWYG software started to appear for more popular computers, including LisaWrite for the Apple Lisa, released in 1983, and MacWrite for the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984.

The Mac started out billed as " the computer for the rest of us " but the Mac's high prices and closed architecture meant the DOS / Windows / Intel onslaught quickly drove the Macintosh into an education and desktop publishing niche, from which it has only recently begun to emerge.

At the time of its original release, Frontier was the only system-level scripting environment for the Macintosh, but Apple was working on its own own scripting language, AppleScript, and started bundling it with the MacOS 7 system software.

The PowerPC program was the one success that came out of the AIM alliance ; Apple started using PowerPC chips in their Macintosh line starting in 1994.

The Macintosh version of Google Earth, software that allows the user to " fly " over the surface of the earth, mapped with high-quality satellite photography and accurate topographical data, has a default position when started up that is centered exactly on the town of Chanute ( specifically, on the corner of Lincoln and Main ).

Apple's portion of the computer industry at this time was transitioning from the 8-bit 6502 CPU technology that started it, to the newer 16 / 32 bit Motorola 68000 used by computers such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST and the Apple Macintosh.

Pangea Software, one of the best-known and popular Macintosh game developers, also started as an Apple IIGS game software company.

Cirtech started work on, but never completed, a black and white Macintosh hardware emulation plug-in card for the Apple IIGS dubbed " Duet ".

" As Macintosh users and electrical engineers, the Current Designs partners found themselves uniquely qualified to fix their own Macs when they started to malfunction.

Once use of floppy disks started declining, Apple reused the trademark to refer to the ( originally Pioneer-built ) DVD writers built into its Macintosh models, which can read and write both DVDs and CDs.

MkLinux is an open source computer operating system started by the OSF Research Institute and Apple Computer in February 1996 to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and Macintosh computers.

Microsoft Works started life as Mouseworks, an integrated spreadsheet, word processor and database program, designed for the Macintosh by ex-Apple alumni Don Williams and Rupert Lissner.

Klein bought his first Macintosh computer in late 1994 and started learning how to make fonts himself.

Thus Siegel abandoned the project and started a new life, working on bringing color to Macintosh computers and later becoming an Internet design expert.

In 1981, Capps started working for Apple on the Lisa project and he continued his work on the Macintosh, principally writing the Finder ( along with Bruce Horn ) and Macintosh system utilities — such as ResEdit.

' Rock the Beat ' by Derek B created a demand for British hip-hop and the demo tapes started to arrive, Music of Life signed the best artists instead of licensing more US material and Harris would produce many new songs featuring artists including M. C Duke, The Demon Boyz ( Million Dan ), Thrashpack, Asher D and Daddy Freddy, CJ Macintosh & Einstein, She Rockers ( Betty Boo ), Hijack and many more.

; ExperCommon Lisp: an early implementation for the Apple Macintosh by ExperTelligence

It was the first national DJ-published music magazine, created on the Macintosh computer using extensive music market research and early desktop publishing tools.

For several years in the early existence of Al ' Kabor, an " Everquest for Macintosh " subscription did not allow the subscriber to create posts on the official Sony " EverQuest for Macintosh " forums.

Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop Desk Accessories and other minor pieces of software that were included with early Macintosh system software.

Another early example was Prograph, a dataflow-based system originally developed for the Macintosh.

In the years immediately after the 1983 ratification of the MIDI specification, MIDI features were adapted to several early computer platforms, including Apple II Plus, IIe and Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, and PC-DOS.

Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh was Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet ; it was also the most successful spreadsheet for the early Mac.

In late 1991, as the higher-end Macintosh desktop lineup transitioned to the ' 040, Apple was unable to offer the newer processor in their top-of-the-line PowerBooks until early 1994.

Very early PC software applications to incorporate plug-in functionality included HyperCard and QuarkXPress on the Macintosh, both released in 1987.

Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Macintosh.

Thirdly, its WIMP GUI inspired the windowing environments of personal computers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, so much so that the windows of the first Macintosh desktop look almost identical to the MVC windows of Smalltalk-80.

* In presentation programs, compound documents and web pages, WYSIWYG means the display precisely represents the appearance of the page displayed to the end-user, but does not necessarily reflect how the page will be printed unless the printer is specifically matched to the editing program, as it was with the Xerox Star and early versions of the Apple Macintosh.

MacDraw, introduced in 1984 with the Macintosh line of computers, was an early example of this class ; recent examples are the commercial products Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, and the free editors such as xfig or Inkscape.

This is seen on most CD-ROM drives as an " emergency eject " should the power fail ; also on early floppy disk drives ( including the early Macintosh ).

The Edit application was a simple text editor made for the early Apple Macintosh.

Macintosh Quadra, Centris, PowerBook 500, Duo Dock II ( for PowerBook Duo ) and early Power Macintoshes had an AAUI port, which requires an external transceiver.

They were most well known as the processors powering the early Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair QL, the Atari ST, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and several others.

Video standards associated with IBM-PC-descended personal computers are shown in the diagram and table below, alongside those of early Macintosh and other makes for comparison.

Xerox only realized their mistake in the early 1980s, after Apple's Macintosh revolutionized the PC market via its bitmap display and the mouse-centered interface — both copied from the Alto.

After Dark was an early screensaver for the Macintosh platform, and later PC / Windows, which prominently featured whimsical designs such as flying toasters.

The lack of fan could cause the life of a Macintosh Plus to end early for some users.

Other significant products include ; the industrial design package StudioTools ( formerly known as Studio, or just " Alias "), which is used extensively in the automotive, aerospace and industrial design industries, a 2D drawing and sketching application called SketchBook Pro, and back in 1992, an early Macintosh based 3D modelling and rendering package called Sketch !, etc.