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[[File:MacOS Architecture.svg|thumb|400px|Additional diagram of macOS architecture (2017 update)]]

The '''architecture of [[macOS]]''' describes the layers of the [[operating system]] that is the culmination of [[Apple Inc.]]'s decade-long research and development process to replace the [[classic Mac OS]].

After the failures of their previous attempts -- Pinkattempts—Pink, which started as an Apple project but evolved into a joint venture with [[IBM]] called [[Taligent]], and [[Copland (operating system)|Copland]], which started in 1994 and was cancelled two years later -- Applelater—Apple began development of Mac OS X with the acquisition of [[NeXT]]'s [[NeXTSTEP]] in 1997.

Note that Mac OS X was renamed to OS X in 2012 and then again to macOS in 2016.