Mac OS X 10.0
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Key facts
- Developer
- Apple Computer
- Os family
- Macintosh Unix-like
- Source model
- Closed , with open source components
- General availability
- March 24, 2001 ; 25 years ago ( 2001-03-24 )
- Latest release
- 10.0.4 / June 22, 2001 ; 24 years ago ( 2001-06-22 )
- Supported platforms
- PowerPC
- Kernel type
- Hybrid ( XNU )
- Default user interface
- Aqua
- License
- Apple Public Source License (APSL) and Apple end-user license agreement (EULA)
- Preceded by
- Mac OS 9 Mac OS X Public Beta
- Succeeded by
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Official website
- Apple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived June 29, 2001)
- Tagline
- The future is here. The power of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance of Macintosh.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Unix-like operating system
- Series
- macOS
- Followed by
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Follows
- Mac OS X Public Beta
- Based on
- Darwin
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Platform
- PowerPC
- Distribution format
- CD-ROM
- Official website
- www.apple.com/macosx
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Encyclopedic overview
Mac OS X 10.0, codenamed "Cheetah", is the first major release of Apple's Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system. Released on March 24, 2001, it served as a successor to Mac OS 9 and the classic Mac OS as a whole.
Mac OS X introduced major changes to the Mac OS architecture and user interface; it adopted a new Unix-like architecture derived from elements of BSD and NeXTSTEP, which are intended to improve the operating system's stability and multitasking capabilities in comparison to the classic Mac OS. It incorporates a new graphical user interface known as "Aqua", which features increased use of transparency and animation effects, and a new application launcher known as the Dock. Mac OS X uses two main frameworks for applications, including Carbon, an updated version of the original Mac OS APIs, and Cocoa, an object-oriented infrastructure based on that of NeXTSTEP.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mac OS X 10.0” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.