Mac OS – Complete History of Mac OS
Apple quickly issued an update to iOS 7 and iOS 6, but took longer to issued an update for Mac OS X, despite Apple confirming that the same SSL/TSL security flaw was also present in OS X.
- Timeline: Mac OS X Mac OS X Server 1.0 - The very first version was launched in 1999, which retained the earlier Mac operating system's 'platinum' appearance and even resembled OPENSTEP in places.
- MacOS, formerly Mac OS X from 2001 to 2012 and OS X until 2016, is the name of an operating system for computers made by Apple Inc. These are called Macintosh computers, or Macs. It differs from other computers, as macOS is supposed to run only on Macs and not on other computers. However, people have made the OS run on computers that are not Macs.
On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc.’s chairman Steve Jobs took to the stage of the Apple’s annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino, to show off the very first Macintosh personal computer in a live demonstration. Macintosh 128 came bundled with what was later called the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software (or System).
The original System Software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983, and both OS were directly inspired by Xerox Alto. It is known, that Steve Jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC (in exchange for Apple stock options) in December 1979, to see Alto’s WYSIWYG concept and the mouse-driven graphical user interface, three months after the Lisa and Macintosh projects had begun. The final Lisa and Macintosh operating systems upgraded the concepts of Xerox Alto with menubars, pop-up menus and drag and drop action.
The primary software architect of the Mac OS was Andy Hertzfeld (see the lower photo, he is standing in the middle). He coded much of the original Mac ROM, the kernel, the Macintosh Toolbox and some of the desktop accessories. The icons of the operating system were designed by Susan Kare (the only woman in the lower photo). Macintosh system utilities and Macintosh Finder were coded by Bruce Horn and Steve Capps. Bill Atkinson (the man with the moustache in the lower photo) was creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, as well as QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Mac used for graphics. Atkinson also designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system.
Apple Macintosh design team with Andy Hertzfeld,
Just like his direct rival, the IBM PC, Mac used a system ROM for the key OS code. However, IBM PC used only 8 kB of ROM for its power-on self-test (POST) and basic input/output system (BIOS), while the Mac ROM was significantly larger (64 kB), because it contained both low-level and high-level code. The low-level code was for hardware initialization, diagnostics, drivers, etc. The higher-level Toolbox was a collection of software routines meant for use by applications, quite like a shared library. Toolbox functionality included the following: management of dialog boxes; fonts, icons, pull-down menus, scroll bars, and windows; event handling; text entry and editing; arithmetic and logical operations.
The first version of the Mac OS (the System Software, which resided on a single 400KB floppy disk) was easily distinguished between other operating systems then because it does not use a command line interface—it was one of the first operating systems to use an entirely graphical user interface or GUI. Additional to the ROM and system kernel is the Finder, an application used for file management, which also displays the Desktop. The two files were contained in a folder labeled System Folder, which contained other resource files, like a printer driver, needed to interact with the System Software.
The first Mac OS Control Panel and other applications
The first releases were single-user, single-tasking (only run one application at a time), though special application shells such could work around this to some extent. They used a flat file system called Macintosh File System (MFS), all files were stored in a single directory. The Finder provided virtual folders that could be used to organize files in a hierarchical view with nested folders, but these were not visible from any other application and did not actually exist in the file system.
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah (2001)
Mac OS X 10.0 Happy Mac Loading Screen (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Loading Screen (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah About This Mac (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Finder (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Finder Column View (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Internet Explorer 5.1 (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Mail App (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Quicktime Player (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Sherlock Search App (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah iTools (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah System Preferences and Applications (2001)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003)
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Gray Boot Screen (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Loading Screen (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Login/Shutdown Screen (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Finder/Applications and About This Mac (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Safari Browser with Slashdot (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Quicktime App (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Desktop and Screen Saver Settings (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Chess and Stickies (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther System Preferences (2003)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (2009)
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard About Dialog (Italian) (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Exposé (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Safari Browser with NY Times Website (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Dashboard Feature (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Finder Cover Flow (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Front Row (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard System Preferences (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Installer (2009)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (2013)
Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks About Dialog (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Desktop (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Launchpad (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Safari Browser Top Sites (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Calendar (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Apple Maps Standard Imagery (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Apple Maps Satellite Imagery (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks System Preferences (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Installation Screen (2013)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite - Flat Design (2014)
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Loading Screen (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Desktop and System Information Dialog (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Today Desktop Feature (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite iCloud in Finder (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Safari and Messages (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Safari Top Sites (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Spotlight Search (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite System Preferences (2014)
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Mac OS X 10.10 Installation Screen (2014)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave - Hello Dark Mode (2018)
macOS 10.14 Mojave Bootup Screen (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Login Screen (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave About Dialog (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Dark Mode Desktop (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Light/Dark Mode Chooser (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Light Mode Desktop (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Application Icons in Finder (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Finder Gallery View (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave System Preferences and Apple Maps (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave General Preferences (2018)
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macOS 10.14 Mojave Desktop and Screen Saver Preferences (2018)
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