Happy Birthday Mac OS X

phillyclaude writes "Thanks to Wikipedia's Anniversaries page, I just realized Mac OS X turns three today! How could I forget such an important birthday?" Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001.

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Re:Birthday Present

[Tumbleweed]

You'll be seeing 2.5gHz G5s first (perhaps next week, according to the rumour sites). The 3gHz machines aren't expected until end of summer, or thereabouts.

I'd be _very_ interested in playing with a generic PPC970FX board (www.970eval.com) with Linux, though, if it became affordable.

I'm _really_ hoping the new machines at end of summer come with PCI-E, so we can all get on with the task of migration at the same time as major processor upgrades.

Mac OS X Release History

[Goo.cc]

I have a page that lists all revision of Mac OS X (client) since the public beta. I created it because I periodically save screenshots and I couldn't always remember which OS revision the screenshot was created with.

Anyway, you can access it at http://www.goo.cc/macosx.html

Re:Expose

[prinko]

they do have something, while not quite as pretty (and nowhere near as smooth...) http://www.onlinetoolsteam.com/WindowsExposer/ yeah, its just so it looks like the mac...kinda like those dock clones out there...

They do

[filmsmith]

WinExpose

I haven't tried it nor do I know anyone who as but... well... there it is.

fs

Re:They do

[undef24]

I bought it and its slow. The next week I bought a powerbook.

Re:Happy OS X user

[mrgeometry]

I would think by then it would get bumped to XI.


There's been a lot of talk to the effect that Apple is not likely to abandon the catchy-sounding "OS X" name. ("O S X I" doesn't sound as cool as "O S X"....) So will they call it "OS X Eleven" or "OS X Two point Oh" or what? Who knows?! As much as the OS might deserve a full new version number, the marketing aspect of it definitely pulls in the direction of keeping "OS X" as long as possible.

zach

PCI-E != PCI-X

[Tumbleweed]

Nope. PCI-X is a much older technology, and very different from the new serial connector technology called PCI Express (abbreviated PCI-E). Macs _have_ had 64-bit 66mHz PCI for quite some time, though that's still nowhere near as sophisticated as PCI-E.

PCI-Express, however, will be replacing both AGP _and_ PCI slots, so all your peripherals will be using the same technology, albeit in different form factors (16x connector for AGP replacement, 1x or 4x connectors for most everything else). I believe it's 250MB/s (each direction?) per 'x' of connector length in PCI-E, so this will be a substantial improvement in bandwidth on PCI-E systems.

Re:PCI-E != PCI-X

[PygmySurfer]

PCI-X is NOT 66 MHz PCI.

"The PCI-X protocol supports high-performance PCI devices, increasing speeds from 33MHz to 133MHz and throughput from 266 Mbps to 2GBps."

It may not be PCI-E, but it's definitely not plain old 66 MHz PCI.

Re:Happy OS X user

[Anonymous Coward]

It's gonna be "Mac OS X 11.0."

The name of the operating system is "Mac OS X," and it's pronounced "Mac Oh Ess Ten." The version number is not part of the name. The version number, presently, is 10.3.3. In a few months it'll be 10.4, and in a few years it'll be 11.0. But they're not gonna change the name of the OS when that happens.

Re:Powerbook rumors?

[ratlater]

MacRumors Buyers Guide is a good place to look for a general idea. They should be releasing a revision with faster processors and a few minor improvements in the next month or two.

-matt

Re:Familial birthdays

[Senjaz]

NeXTSTEP 0.8 was released on 12th October 1988. Version 1.0 was released 18 September 1989.

The first version to be labeled Mac OS X was Mac OS X Server 1.0 which was release on 16th March 1999.

Aqua first appeared in DP3: 14th February 2000 and there it was first recognisable at a glance as the same OS that we use today.

So Mac OS X could also be 4, 5, 14 or 15 years old depending on how you want to look at it.