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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 09:02 |
One of the most inscrutable things about Apple, to me at least, is this Feline naming system they came up with for their current Operating System, OS X, which is also known as "Oh Ess Ten" to Apple-folk. Here goes, in sequential order.
- 0. Mac OS X Public Beta "Kodiak"
- fall 2000->spring 2001 - the first look at the new operating system and the "Aqua" interface
- 1. Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah"
- March 24, 2001
- Classic Mode
- 5 years of development, based on "Darwin" port of Free BSD
- Last version: 10.0.4
- 2. Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma"
- September 25, 2001
- DVD playback
- January 7, 2002
- OSX becomes official default Apple OS
- Last version: 10.1.5
- 3. Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar"
- August 23 2002
- iChat appears
- HappyMac boot logo dies
- Last version: 10.2.8
- 4. Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther"
- October 24, 2003
- No more "beige Macs"
- No more Wallstreet PowerBooks
- Fast User Switching appears
- Safari appears
- Last version: 10.3.9
- 5. Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
- April 29, 2005
- Retail DVD is PPC only
- Runs only on PPC machines with a Firewire Port
- January 10, 2006
- Intel support
- Last version: 10.4.11
- 6. Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard"
- October 26, 2007
- No more Classic MacOS
- No more G3 PPC's
- No more G4 < 867Mhz
- Time Machine
- Bootcamp
- Last version: 10.5.8
- 7. Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard"
- August 28, 2009
- No more PPC's
- MS Exchange support in communications apps
- Optimized for Intel chipsets, much leaner & faster than previous OS X versions.
- Last version: 10.6.2
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