Happy birthday! Mac OS X turns 9
It was nine years ago today that Mac OS X 10.0 was born -- or became available to the general public anyway. On September 13, 2000 Apple released a public beta called "Kodiak" (think of this as OS X's conception). On March 24, 2001 Apple effectively ditched OS 9 for the current generation OS that would allow ultimate scalability for the coming decades. Since then, Mac OS X has had seven or eight major versions depending on who you ask. Jobs considered Mac OS X 10.4.4 major version since it was totally rewritten to run on Intel chips. Here's a list of the names and subsequent release dates for all the versions thus far.
- 10.0 Cheetah -- March 24, 2001
- 10.1 Puma -- September 25, 2001
- 10.2 Jaguar -- August 24, 2002
- 10.3 Panther -- October 24, 2003
- 10.4 Tiger -- April 29, 2005
- 10.4 Intel Tiger -- January 10, 2006
- 10.5 Leopard -- October 26, 2007
- 10.6 Snow Leopard -- August 28, 2009
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It was nine years ago today that Mac OS X 10.0 was born -- or became available to the general public anyway. On September 13, 2000 Apple...
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I miss my iBook G3 with Panther... I absolutely did not like 10.0 or 10.1, so I stayed away and used OS 9. Finally I had to upgrade for whatever reason and couldn't believe how nice it was. Of course, that was while I was fighting with a terrible lemon of a computer, but the software was perfect.
March 24 2010 at 11:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat I find extremely funny is that every version of OS X looks better than Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Yikes.
I haven't really noticed. I was using my computer to be productive, not gawk at the pretty shiny.
March 24 2010 at 10:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan we get new MacBook announcments as a present?
March 24 2010 at 2:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow the same anniversary as 1858, Hymen Lipman was granted a patent for attaching a piece of rubber to the end of a pencil.
Clearly everything is linked - err somehow
If you remember MacOS X Public beta was actually released September 13, 2000 for $30...
March 24 2010 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBy the way... 10.4.4 wasn't re-written to run on Intel machines. I believe Steve Jobs mentioned that they were secretly writing the PPC version and Intel version of Mac OS X side by side the entire time before that.
March 24 2010 at 9:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPlease don't tell me to think of an operating system conception. I have an incredible imagination and that was not awesome.
March 24 2010 at 8:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt is also steve's birthday today.
(i.e. balmar, not jobs)
Not a fan of steve balmar to remember his birthday though. Just got the "On this day" iPhone app yesterday and checked today morning for the birthdays on this day. :-)
-satyakam
RyanR yep I think you did.
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