A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems - Mac OS X Internals
A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems - Mac OS X Internals
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124 Chapter 1 A <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Apple’s <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>Systems</strong><br />
been that a new version <strong>of</strong> the desktop is released first, soon followed by the<br />
equivalent server revision.<br />
The first few major <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X releases are listed in Table 1–1. Note that the<br />
code names are all taken from felid taxonomy.<br />
TABLE 1–1 <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X Versions<br />
Version Codename Release Date<br />
10.0 Cheetah March 24, 2001<br />
10.1 Puma September 29, 2001<br />
10.2 Jaguar August 23, 2002<br />
10.3 Panther October 24, 2003<br />
10.4 Tiger April 29, 2005<br />
10.5 Leopard 2006/2007?<br />
Let us look at some notable aspects <strong>of</strong> each major <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X release.<br />
1.10.4.1. <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X 10.0<br />
Apple dubbed “Cheetah” as “the world’s most advanced operating system.” Finally,<br />
Apple had shipped an operating system with features that it had long sought. How-<br />
ever, it was clear that Apple had a long way to go in terms <strong>of</strong> performance and sta-<br />
bility. Key features <strong>of</strong> 10.0 included the following.<br />
• The Aqua user interface, with the Dock and the Finder as the primary<br />
user-facing tools<br />
• The PDF-based Quartz 2D graphics engine<br />
• OpenGL for 3D graphics<br />
• QuickTime for streaming audio and video (shipping for the first time as<br />
an integrated feature)<br />
• Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE)<br />
• Integrated Kerberos
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