MacOS
macOS is the primary operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. It is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10. 0, was released in March 2001, with its first update, 10. 1, arriving later that year. Apple began a gradual transition to 64-bit ARM-based, Apple Silicon Macs as of Mac OS 11.
About MacOS in brief
macOS is the primary operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. It is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10. 0, was released in March 2001, with its first update, 10. 1, arriving later that year. It was originally presented as the tenth major version of Apple’s operating system. Apple shortened the name to \”OS X\” in 2012 and then changed it to \”macOS\” in 2016. In 2020, Apple incremented the major version number to 11 in macOS Big Sur, although it retains the same base as the previous versions of macOS. The heritage of what would become macOS had originated at NeXT, a company founded by Steve Jobs following his departure from Apple in 1985. NeXT’s NeXTSTEP operating system was developed, and then launched in 1989. The kernel of NeXT STEP is based upon the Mach kernel, which was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University, with additional kernel layers and low-level user space code derived from parts of BSD. Its graphical user interface was built on top of an object-oriented GUI toolkit using the Objective-C programming language. Apple began a gradual transition to 64-bit ARM-based, Apple Silicon Macs as of Mac OS 11. Apple has stated that it should be pronounced ‘ten’ in this context, but it is also like the letter ‘X’ in OS X and OS X is the Roman numeral for the number 10 and is pronounced as such.
The letter \”X\” in Mac OSX’s name refers to the number10, a Roman numal, and Apple has said that it is pronounced ‘Ten’ The first version of OS X, OS X 0, featured an interface resembling the classic Mac OS, though it was not compatible with software designed for the older Mac OS. Consumer versions of Mac X included with more backward compatibility with Mac OS 1. With Apple’s popularity at a low, several classic applications could be rewritten to run natively via the Carbon API. The consumer version of MacOS X was launched in 2001 with MacOS 10.0, with extensive praise for its sophisticated, glossy interface, but criticizing it for sluggish performance. With the release of OS 10. 5 Leopard and thereafter are UNIX 03 certified. As of OS 9 Mavericks, releases have been named after locations in California. Apple’s new MacMaker software allows developers to develop new versions of their classic applications such as MacMaker PageMaker and MacMaker Maker. The new Mac Maker software was released on September 14, 2013. It has been released on a range of platforms, including the iPad, the iPhone, the iPad mini, and the Macbook Pro. The Mac maker software is available on the Mac App Store, with prices starting at $99.99 (US) and $199 (UK) for the Mac OS 10 version and $299 for the iPhone and iPad Pro versions. Apple does not sell MacMaker products in the UK.
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This page is based on the article MacOS published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 19, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
