Happy Birthday to Mac OS X

[Magnus]

TUAW pointed out that March 21, 2001, saw the launch of Mac OS X.

• Mac OS X Public Beta (September 13, 2000)
• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah (March 21, 2001)
• Mac OS X 10.1 Puma (September 25, 2001)
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (August 23, 2002)
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (October 24, 2003)
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (April 29, 2005)
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (October 26, 2007)

See the evolution below.

Mac OS X Public Beta:



Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah:



Mac OS X 10.1 Puma:



Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar:



Mac OS X 10.3 Panther:



Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger:



Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:

[venky83]

You know a poster by the nick John C comments,

Another point of note is the time between updates starting from the public Beta:
10.0 - 5 months
10.1 - 6 months
10.2 - 12 months
10.3 - 13 months
10.4 - 19 months
10.5 - 30 months

Isn't it surprising as to how fast Apple has been updating it. Contrast it with Microsoft Windows..... you know the time lag between XP and Vista. Just shows, how much effort Apple puts into the software. Apple is a software company that also does amazing hardware designs.

[Appleholic]

Happy birthday my be-loved OSX... cant wait to see you at 10.10 can u imagine what that OSXX would be like the force is with u my presuse software

[dandantheitman]

Originally Posted by venky83

You know a poster by the nick John C comments,

Isn't it surprising as to how fast Apple has been updating it. Contrast it with Microsoft Windows..... you know the time lag between XP and Vista. Just shows, how much effort Apple puts into the software. Apple is a software company that also does amazing hardware designs.

Its not really that surprising. Apple OS is UNIX so its code base cannot really change, it must conform to all of the open groups POSIX requirements. Essentailly you have a 30 year old operating system, which saw some massive revisions early on by the TOP US Universities and now sees verry little. The good news for Apple is that they get to leave their underlying code alone, and work purely on the visual goodness that we love so much.

Apple also gets the benefit of having access to massive amounts of open source, When they see stuff they like they add it to source tree and move along.

Dan

Dan