Macintosh History: 1988
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1988 was not a year of breakthroughs for Apple, but a year of evolution.
January saw the introduction of the LaserWriter II family, a trio of printers sharing the same 8 page per minute engine but different processor boards.
In February, Apple released its first version of Unix for the Macintosh, A/UX, which required a Mac II.
The first Apple CD-ROM shipped in March, making Apple one of the earliest computer makers to embrace the emerging technology.
The Mac IIx provided a few enhancements over the Mac II: the 68030 processor could handle virtual memory and the high density floppy drives could handle 1.4 MB disks.
At the same time, a revised version of the Mac SE using high density floppies was introduced.
With the right software, these two models could read and write 3.5" DOS disks, a feature we almost take for granted today.
The Mac operating system inched forward, becoming System 6 by the end of the year.
The Competition
The Wintel world claimed
30,000,000 MS-DOS users, Microsoft released Windows 2, and
something called a computer virus infected 6,000 computers
connected to something called the internet.
NeXT shipped their first computer, the NeXT Cube, in October. Steve Jobs, always one to push the envelope, equipped it with an optical drive instead of a floppy and made a 17" 4-shade grayscale monitor standard equipment. There wasn't even an optional floppy drive.
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