Labels:book | computer | crt screen | hakham | keyboard | monitor | road | sky | tv OCR: 496 SECTION A CHAPTER remained committed to graphical user interfaces, however, and in 1984 released the first Apple Macintosh (Figure 9-13). The $2 495 Macintosh FIGURE 9-13 featured a graphical user interface that made programs easier to use than The Apple Macintosh computer those on the command- -line- -based IBM PC. The Macintosh became the popularized graphical user computer of choice for graphical applica ations such as desktop publishing. interfaces By the late 1980s, the computer industry had begun to con- solidate around two primary platforms -the MS -DOS -based IBM-compatible platform and the Apple Macintosh Although dozens of companies produced IBM-compatible systems that Aello ran the same software and used the same hardware as the IBM PC Apple attempted to keep its system prop ...
