Macintosh (disambiguation)

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Macintosh may mean:

  • Macintosh (fruit) [r]: A type of apple, an edible tree fruit. Officially, this variety should be known as McIntosh, but the "Mac" spelling is very common. [e]
  • Apple Macintosh [r]: A personal computer that runs the Mac operating system (currently over BSD/UNIX), has a generally closed architecture, and is optimized for a consistent user interface. Developed in the early 1980s and released in 1984 by Apple Inc. (at the time known as Apple Computer). [e]
  • The Apple Macintosh, one of the first Personal Computers to use a Graphical User Interface, developed in the early 1980s and released in 1984 by Apple Inc (at the time known as Apple Computer).
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