Web site: www.apple.com/macosx/ (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop, Server
Desktop environment: GUI
Architecture: PowerPC
Based on: Darwin
Wikipedia: Mac OS X 10
Media: Install
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Mac OS X – the Apple’s successor to the classic Mac OS.
It was derived from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD, and featured a new user interface called Aqua, as well as improved stability and security due to its new Unix foundations. It introduced the Quartz graphics rendering engine for hardware-accelerated animations. Many technologies were ported from the classic Mac OS, including Sherlock and the QuickTime framework. The core components of Mac OS X were open sourced as Darwin.
Mac OS X 10.0 “Cheetah” is the first major version of macOS, Apple’s desktop operating system, which was originally introduced as Mac OS X. “Cheetah” was the codename used during the development phase.
It completely replaced the previously used Mac OS “Classic”. Mac OS X, pronounced “Mac OS Ten” for the number ten, succeeded the classic Mac OS 9 and resulted from the merger of the existing Mac OS with the operating system OPENSTEP, acquired by NeXT in 1996, and its successor, Rhapsody. Released as Mac OS X Server 10.0 on May 21, 2001, approximately two months after the desktop version, it also replaced the nearly identical Mac OS X Server 1.x, which had succeeded the Classic Mac OS as the server operating system starting in 1999.
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