At the upper right hand corner, where System 7's application menu would later exist, was the icon of the currently running application clicking on it would cycle through running applications rather than displaying a menu of running applications to choose from. ![]() System 6 with MultiFinder differed from the later System 7 in the following principal ways: The MultiFinder environment allowed users to see past the windows of running applications to view Finder icons such as the Trash, or the windows of other applications running in the background. If MultiFinder were selected, the Finder and its functions continued to run when an application was launched. ![]() Multitasking under System 6 was optional - startup could be set to Finder or to "MultiFinder". System 6 was the first Mac OS which included multitasking out of the box, enabled by default. In System 4 (System Software 2.0) a much more seamless approach called MultiFinder was used, but was disabled by default. It is widely considered to be best Mac System for older (non- PowerPC) machines, and there are hobbyist groups surfing the web using System 6 and elderly Macs to run it.Ĭooperative multitasking actually made its Macintosh debut under System 2 with a program called Switcher, which allowed the user to launch multiple applications and switch between them. ![]() System 6 was the first Macintosh system software to include cooperative multitasking by default.
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