![]() It stayed on my G3 iMac until the computer died in early 2003, and then it stayed on my iBook G3 SE FireWire until the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. I have memories of Puma as being a very stable release, especially in its last 10.1.5 iteration, and a real performance boost compared with 10.0. Protected memory: Memory protection so that if an application corrupts its memory, the memory of other applications will not be corrupted.With hindsight, using the Dock for status icons could have been a better idea, since the Dock is more expandable and eventually has more room for icons rather than the menu bar. By the way, the ‘dockling’ concept wasn’t that bad. ![]() In my afore-linked Tour of Mac OS X 10.0.3, I wrote: Apple quickly abandoned the use of docklings, but at this time it seems pretty evident that the Dock was designed to be a versatile centre of operations, acting as a Launcher, a navigational tool (by putting folder aliases on the right side of it), an application switcher (taking the function of the Application menu in the Mac OS ‘classic’ Finder) but also as an evolution of the Control Strip. Docklings: A very short-lived feature, but I liked it.The Aqua interface: I really loved all the previous Macintosh user interfaces, and while other long-time Mac users weren’t particularly thrilled by the Aqua redesign at the time, I had no problems accepting the new look.I was still using Mac OS 8.6 on my G3 iMac, and a friend gave me the 10.0 CD-ROM only in late July 2001, and when Mac OS X 10.1 Puma was released two months later, I upgraded immediately. I didn’t use 10.0 much at the time of its release. I published a brief visual tour of Mac OS X 10.0.3 on my System Folder blog back in 2008. Siracusa’s contributions on the matter are a marvellous, immense endeavour deserving the highest praise. If you have time and want a more detailed read on the history and evolution of Mac OS X, I strongly suggest checking out this article by John Siracusa and all the links to his monumental Mac OS X reviews and retrospectives listed therein. The specific bits of information taken verbatim from Wikipedia are marked with. (Note that the features I liked the most may not necessarily coincide with important features that were added in each new release).īefore we begin: for practical reasons I’ve heavily relied on Wikipedia as a source of information, simply because there are too many details I can’t just recall by memory. I think that this approach is also a nice way to reminisce a bit about Mac OS X through the years. ![]() In this overview, then, I want to go through every major release of Mac OS X, and briefly talk about which new features I’ve liked the most for each release, and which features I was sad to see removed. Since my day job has kept me rather busy these past weeks, I haven’t been as prompt as other tech writers in recognising this 20-year milestone and writing something celebratory about it. The denomination Mac OS X is however slightly older than that, as it debuted with the release of Mac OS X 1.0 Server on 16 March 1999. On 24 March 2021, Mac OS X (now simply Mac OS) turned 20, as its first major release, Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was released on 24 March 2001.
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