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#1 2006-03-24 1:49 pm
- MtHowitzer
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Happy Birthday OS X
Yep! 5 years old today. What a great time it's been.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars
Five years of Mac OS X
1 - The road behind 2 - Long live the Mac By John Siracusa
Friday, March 24, 2006
The road behind
Mac OS X 10.0 was released five years ago today, on March 24th, 2001. To me, it felt like the end of a long road rather than a beginning. At that point, I'd already written over 100,000 words about Apple's new OS for Ars Technica, starting with the second developer release and culminating in the public beta several months before 10.0. But the road that led to Mac OS X extends much farther into past—years, in fact.
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#2 2006-03-24 2:27 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I bought the "beta" 10.0. We've come a long way baby!
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#3 2006-03-24 3:39 pm
- Czachorski
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Wow. I bought my first Mac at 10.2 in October 2002, and never realized that it was only 18 months after the release of 10.0. They went from 10.0 to 10.2 rather quickly, I guess.
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#4 2006-03-24 3:53 pm
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I too bought the 10.0 beta, but mostly because they packaged it with OS 9 which I didn't have yet. And I believe 10.1 was only about 6 months after 10.0. I picked up my free copy at CompUSA.
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#5 2006-03-24 4:06 pm
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
YAY! Birffdeh!
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#6 2006-03-24 5:25 pm
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
it took me a while to move to os x from os 9.
there's no going back now.
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#7 2006-03-24 5:27 pm
- ConnertheCat
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
*Remembers fondly the many posts about people poping in their brand new OS X disks*
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#8 2006-03-24 5:33 pm
- MacBoy4139
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
brings a tear to my eye
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#9 2006-03-24 6:11 pm
- Thunderstruck
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Got Cheetah on release day
Got Puma through Apple's free upgrade program (mailed)
Got Jaguar on release day
Got Panther on the iMac G5
Got Tiger on release day
A Mac geek that's what I am 
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#10 2006-03-24 8:29 pm
Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Time flies.. I remember very well installing the "DP4" then the public beta.. It was so the future.
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#11 2006-03-24 8:48 pm
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Just imagine where we will be 5 years from now....
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#12 2006-03-24 9:31 pm
Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Well; actually, five years makes me think it hasn't changed -that- much.. What's the most important evolution since 10.0 ? (put aside bugsix and optimisation)
To me it's probably Quartz Extreme.
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#13 2006-03-24 10:35 pm
- ConnertheCat
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I like Safari.
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#14 2006-03-24 10:46 pm
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I remember trying to run the public beta on my beige G3 - it was sooooo slow. I remember the panning screen savers barely worked at all. Still, I was just happy for a glimpse.
OS X still feels kind of new to me, but 5 years is a lot. OS 8+9 combined only lasted 4 years. OS 7 was 6 years. Mac OS 1.0-9.0 was about 15 years. I wonder what the next major overhaul will be like, and if it's already in the works.
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#15 2006-03-24 10:49 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Blandford Fly wrote:
it took me a while to move to os x from os 9.
Not me, I was in a hurry, plus saw the potential. I couldn't wait to get rid of OS9.
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#16 2006-03-25 3:25 am
Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I got Panther on my 15" PowerBook and I pre-ordered Tiger so it arrived release day. I did not have a chance to install until that night though.
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#17 2006-03-25 4:02 am
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I thought I was a nerd for remembering Jobs' birthday.
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#18 2006-03-25 4:36 pm
- ColourClassic
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I remember the Mac OS X public beta (which i still have) was destined to have the apple logo in the top middle of the screen, unfunctional.
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#19 2006-03-25 9:24 pm
- Interactive_Eaten
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Techically it's not really 5 years.... OS 10.0 so should've been a beta version but they just had to screw people out of their $100 early...
I'd say OS X officially started with Jaguar.
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#21 2006-03-25 10:29 pm
- bSimms
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
I'd say exposé is one of my favorite features in the last 5 years.
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#22 2006-03-25 10:32 pm
- MacBoy4139
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Interactive is a Troll. Ignore them.
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I'm still trying to figure out if you're a girl posing as Macboy4139, or a boy posing as a girl, and a bit confused sexually. <shrug> laughinol
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#24 2006-03-25 11:20 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
Yeah, I think that "Nobody Cares" avatar is a dead giveaway to his troll status. 
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#25 2006-03-26 12:14 am
- Shadowless
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Re: Happy Birthday OS X
What gets me is that he cared enough to make that logo. Someone needs to re-evaluate their priorities.
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