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Happy Birthday Tracee Mac OS

May 27 2021

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Scott Forstall on Twitter: Happy 20th Birthday Mac OS X! I still remember when we named you. In a small room in IL1. When Steve slashed a large X on the wall and smiled. Look at how far you’ve come from a young Cheetah. Download and use 10,000+ mac os wallpaper stock photos for free. Daily thousands of new images Completely Free to Use High-quality videos and images from Pexels. Happy Birthday: WebObjects at 10. Mar 27th, 2006 3:00 PM EST. Remarkably, given away free as part of Mac OS Xis Xcode developer tools. That so few Mac users are aware of the gift.

As we shared earlier today, the macOS operating system — formerly called Mac OS X — is turning 20 years old this Wednesday, March 24, 2021. To celebrate the occasion, none other than Scott Forstall decided to use his Twitter account tonight to congratulate Mac OS X.

In a post on his personal Twitter account, which he doesn’t use often, Forstall celebrates the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X and remembers when Steve Jobs decided on the name for the 10th version of Apple’s operating system.

“I still remember when we named you. In a small room in IL1. When Steve slashed a large X on the wall and smiled. Look at how far you’ve come from a young Cheetah,” said Forstall. The system was named Mac OS at that time, but Apple had been working on a completely new version that came to be Mac OS X.

Long-time Mac users may remember that the first versions of Mac OS X were named after big cats, but that was only because Apple used “Cheetah” as the codename for Mac OS X 10.0. After that, the company decided to use the big cat names for other versions of OS X, such as Puma, Tiger, and Leopard.

Scott Forstall worked for NeXT with Steve Jobs since 1992 and joined Apple in 1997 after the company was acquired. He became SVP of software at Apple in 2003 and was deeply involved with the development of iPhone in 2005 — which made Forstall to be considered the “father of iOS.” In 2006, he took the lead in the development of Mac OS X as well.

Forstall left Apple in 2012 after the Apple Maps controversy in which the company replaced Google Maps with its own map solution, which was deemed unfinished and buggy. He was mainly replaced by Craig Federighi, who leads Apple’s software engineering to this day.

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It's hard to believe that Apple's OS X turned seven years old over the weekend. It seems like just yesterday I was playing with the beta builds on a friend's revision-A iMac. For those of us who had been using the OS prior to its release, Mac OS X was a frightening new world, one with shiny new widgets and preemptive multitasking. It has been seven years to the day since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped from Apple, and we decided to ask some of our Mac-using staff about their fondest (and not so fond) memories of the Apple's next-generation operating system.

I remember running to my local Apple dealer for the OS X.1 upgrade. It was a rather hefty update and came on CD. The sales person immediately knew what I wanted and didn't even charge me $129 for it. Oh, how I long for the days of free updates. Of course, not having to reformat my drive from HFS to HFS+ also stands out in my mind.

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Managing Editor Eric Bangeman remembers convincing himself he would wait until 10.1 before making the jump. He took a trip to local Micro Center a few days after launch, though, and was almost immediately seduced by the beauty. He's been using it ever since.

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Infinite Loop writer and Macintosh Achaia moderator Erik Kennedy remembers marveling over the change in interface from OS X Developer Preview 2 to Developer Preview 3, and less fondly the iTunes 2 fiasco that erased many users' data.

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Another Infinite Loop writer, Justin Berka, recalled (not so fondly) the days of 'nasty pinstripes' and the 'beach ball of doom.'

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While some of us were eager to be early adopters, our own Jacqui Cheng swore that she would never use the newfangled operating system and would stick with OS 9 forever. It only took her several months to realize everyone else was 'moving on with their lives,' and that she had to do the same before becoming a graybeard. So to speak.

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On the flipside, our resident designer and Battlefront moderator Aurich Lawson was so eager to leave OS 9 behind that he ran OS 10.0 in a production environment, despite the fact that all of his applications were being run in Classic mode.

This is just a smattering of what individuals in the Ars Orbiting HQ remember. So readers, we leave it to you: what is it that you fondly, or not so fondly, remember about the last seven years of Mac OS X?

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