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unusual facts about Classic Mac OS



Menu blinking

Only in Classic Mac OSes there have been preferences for Menu Blinking where you can control how many times the selection rectangle blinks.

Services menu

Even in Mac OS X, there is an alternative system called the context menu handler, which is carried over from classic Mac OS.

Sound Manager

The Sound Manager is a part of the classic Apple Macintosh operating system, in Classic Mac OS.


see also

Data Access Language

However, like any server software on the "classic" Mac OS, Butler was seriously hampered by the Mac's single-user file system and limited multitasking and could never really deliver the sort of performance the same server would have on Windows NT or Unix.