MacOS, first released as Mac OS X, is the operating system for Apple's Mac computers. The first public version, 10.0, code-named Cheetah, replaced the older classic Mac OS and was built on a Unix foundation derived from NeXTSTEP, the system developed by Steve Jobs's company NeXT, which Apple acquired in the late 1990s. It introduced the Aqua graphical interface, the Dock and protected memory for stability. Apple later shortened the name to OS X in 2012 and renamed it macOS in 2016. The system has been updated yearly since, and it also provided the basis for iOS and other Apple platforms.
Before and after
- March 2001Construction of Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"
- 16 March 2001Release of Catalan Wikipedia
- 16 March 2001Release of German Wikipedia
- 23 March 2001Release of French Wikipedia
- 24 March 2001Creation of macOS
- 29 March 2001Construction of Incheon International Airport
- from 30 March 2001 to 26 July 2017Premiere of The Fairly OddParents
- 4 April 2001Discovery of HD 28185 b
- 7 April 2001Launch of 2001 Mars Odyssey
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
The era
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