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September 29th, 2005, 08:54 PM
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| Mac OS X ? Can anyone tell me how many versions of OS X there is?  |
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#2
September 29th, 2005, 09:18 PM
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| How many versions have been released? Not including the public beta, there was 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. Of course, there were, what?, five versions of 10.0 (10.0 to 10.0.4), six versions of 10.1 (10.1 to 10.1.5), nine versions of 10.2 (10.2 yikes! to 10.2.8), ten versions of 10.3 (10.3 to 10.3.9), and thus far three versions of 10.4 (10.4 to 10.4.2). Of course, 10.3.8 (I think) was pulled and re-released. And Java has been updated a few times, there have been dozens of security patches, and I personally updated my Flash plug-in for Safari to version 8 or whatever because someone said it was faster. What else do you want to know?  dougbot
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September 29th, 2005, 09:20 PM
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NeXTstep 0.8After the release of Rhapsody 5.1 Apple started work on Mac OS X. The versions for Mac OS X are as follows: Mac OS X Developer PreviewWhen Apple started Mac OS X they felt a need to relieve themselves of some undue licensing restrictions that had been following the NeXT/Apple OS from it's conception in the late 1980s. The new foundation was named Darwin. Here are the releases (that correspond to Mac OS X releases): Mac OS 10.0 (Mac OS X Developer Preview)I think that is a pretty complete listing to date. The Darwin list is the hardest to follow as Apple changed the version numbers with Mac OS X 10.1.1, and that the earliest developer previews displayed Mac OS 10.0 rather than Darwin. Does that answer your question? *for some reason 10.3.1 displays Darwin 7.0 when it should have been 7.1 |
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#4
September 29th, 2005, 09:28 PM
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| Touche' RacerX! Of course, all versions of OS X that I've seen have Classic running OS 9, preceeded by 8.x, etc. And OS X owes important brains to Free BSD and UCLA's and CMU's work . . . And the fine folks who developed OpenGL and Java and All the way back to the dinosaurs. I mean the difference engine. Or the abacus. Or the first time a man counted to 21. Or something. Alec
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September 29th, 2005, 10:01 PM
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| Seems like a lot. What if I would of said "Estimated number of Titles" would that make a difference? BTW thank you for such excellent replies. |
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September 29th, 2005, 10:04 PM
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Rhapsody Developer Release... Mac OS 8.0** Blue Box was not released until months later as it was not ready at the same time as Rhapsody DR. All later releases of Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server came with Blue Box on the same installation CD... which is optional (only one of my three Rhapsody systems has Blue Box installed). Quote:
I think people should know that OpenBSD and NetBSD were used at one point (before Apple focused on FreeBSD). |
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September 30th, 2005, 09:07 AM
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10.0.x "Puma" 10.1.x "Cheetah" 10.2.x "Jaguar" 10.3.x "Panther" 10.4.x "Tiger"
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September 30th, 2005, 09:12 AM
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| Not much to add to the shockingly thorough posts above. I just want to mention that until 10.2 "Jaguar", the cat names were code names, not used as official public names.
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