abstract
| - Mac OS 7.6 was released in January 1997. Mac OS 7.6 is also the last major release of System 7. Starting at this operating system, they were no longer called "Systems", and they were now called "Mac OS's". Its major enhancements came in the fields of virtual memory, memory management, the File Manager's caching scheme and the PowerPC Resource Manager routines. Also, the system's memory allocation scheme for some of its more frequently-used shared libraries were streamlined to take advantage of file mapping when virtual memory was on, a new functionality was implemented in Extensions manager, and a new Mac OS Installer -- the "umbrella" installer -- walks users through a safer installation process, including disk integrity checks, leading to less restarts. QuickTime 2.5, OpenDoc 1.1.2, Open Transport 1.1.1 and Cyberdog 1.2.1 were integrated in Mac OS 7.6. At the same time, support for classic networking and PowerTalk were discontinued.
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