11/17/2023 0 Comments Mac operating systems timeline![]() ![]() Maybe Zuma, or Malibu, or Hollywood, or even Shasta. Since the release of Mavericks, the company has focused on California landmarks and locations, releasing Yosemite in October, 2014, El Capitan on September, 2015 and most recently Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12), which was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference a few months ago and is in late beta testing prior to being released generally later this year.Īfter Sierra? Who knows. Here’s a handy visualization of the different releases on a timeline from Wikipedia: ![]() Mavericks is also a famous surfing beach in Northern California, not far from the Cupertino headquarters of the company. In 2013 Apple introduced Mac OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, which was the first Mac operating system to support 64-bit Intel processors. The latter was released in July, 2012 and was the last animal named release of Mac OS X. Then systems were released approximately annually: Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, the weirdly incremental Snow Leopard (now we’re at August 2009), Lion and Mountain Lion. Six months later Apple released Puma (10.1) which added lots of missing features from the first OS X release, notably including DVD playback support. ![]() Described in its 'About' window as 'The Macintosh Desktop Experience', it is responsible for the launching of other applications, and for the overall user management of files, disks, and network volumes. The first official release of Mac OS X, 10.0, was known as Cheetah, and came out in March of 2001. Finder (software) The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems. Not a member of the feline family at all! Not unreasonable since Apple is a California-based company.īut even before that, the very first beta version of Mac OS X (back when most people were using MacOS 9 and had no idea what true multitasking was) had the codename “Kodiak”.ĭo some homework and Kodiak is a city in Alaska and the name of a type of bear both. Heck, the very latest version is Sierra.Īpple ran out of animal names at some point (actually the introduction of 10.9) and switched to famous spots in California. Well, I’m afraid your buddy is correct that not every release of Mac OS X has been named after a cat. ![]()
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