![]() ![]() It took a little while to switch completely, but I never looked back. – Steve Jobs on Mac OS X’s Acqua user interface, January 2000 Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah (2000) Mac OS X 10.1 Puma (2001) Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (2002) Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003) Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (2005) Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (2007). “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” I could now run my favourite development tools right on my personal computer! I was accustomed at the time to use zTerm to connect to my University’s mainframe or ssh into my web hosting provider. I especially loved the fact that Unix was underneath, and that you could open a terminal and launch a shell on your own computer. Many features were missing at first, and performance was terrible, but it felt like the future (and according to Steve Jobs, its candy-gloss UI was “lickable”). I believe I switched for good on its second iteration Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). ![]() Cheetah also started the trend of Apple Inc. ![]() I haven’t been using Mac OS X for twenty years, but I did install the initial beta, and every version since, eventhough at first I essentially booted into Mac OS 9 when I wanted to get things done. The release of 10.0 / Cheetah marked the beginning of the 10.x series of Mac OS software releases. Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Mac OS X, now called macOS Big Sur (11). ![]()
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