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The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9 , was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their ...
The letter "X" in Mac OS X's name refers to ... of a 1993 collaboration between NeXT Computer and Sun ... to change aspects of the macOS appearance and design ...
The classic Mac OS is the original Macintosh operating system introduced in 1984 alongside the first Macintosh and remained in primary use on Macs until Mac OS X in 2001. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Apple released the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984; its early system software is partially based on Lisa OS , and inspired by the Alto computer, which ...
Mac OS X Server 10.1 – code name Puma; Mac OS X Server 10.2 – code name Jaguar; Mac OS X Server 10.3 – code name Panther; Mac OS X Server 10.4 – code name Tiger; Mac OS X Server 10.5 – also marketed as Leopard Server; Mac OS X Server 10.6 – also marketed as Snow Leopard Server; Starting with Lion, there is no separate Mac OS X ...
macOS Sonoma was succeeded by macOS Sequoia, which was released on September 16, 2024. The first developer beta was released on June 5, 2023, [6] and macOS Sonoma entered public beta on July 11, 2023. [7] macOS Sonoma is the final version of macOS that supports the 2018–2019 MacBook Air, as its successor, macOS Sequoia, drops support for ...
Apple ceased support for booting on PowerPC as of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard [22] in August 2009, [23] three years after the transition was complete. Support for PowerPC applications via Rosetta was dropped from macOS in 10.7 "Lion" [24] in July 2011, five years after the transition was complete. [25]
Rhapsody (an early form of Mac OS X) RISC iX – derived from BSD 4.3, by Acorn computers, for their ARM family of machines; RISC/os (a port by MIPS Technologies of 4.3BSD for its MIPS-based computers) RMX; SCO UNIX (from SCO, bought by Caldera who renamed themselves SCO Group) SINIX (a port by SNI of Unix to the MIPS architecture)
Mac OS 8.5 was the first version of the Mac OS to support themes, or skins, which could change the default Apple Platinum look of the Mac OS to "Gizmo" or "HiTech" themes. This radical changing of the computer's appearance was removed at the last minute, and appeared only in beta versions, though users could still make (and share) their own ...