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GS/OS was Apple’s Colorful Desktop That Lived on the Wrong Machine from the 1980s

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GS/OS (1988) brought a colorful, Mac-like desktop experience to the Apple IIGS, featuring draggable windows, icons, and modular drivers. Apple discontinued it by 1992, redirecting focus to the Macintosh.

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