Comparison of user features of operating systems: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:51, 6 February 2023

Revision as of 05:35, 7 February 2023

Line 75:

The [[Mac OS 9#Mac OS 9 and the Classic Environment|final updates to Mac OS 9]] released in 2001 provided interoperability with Mac OS X. The name "Classic" that now signifies the historical Mac OS as a whole is a reference to the [[List of macOS components#Classic|Classic Environment]], a [[compatibility layer]] that helped ease the transition to Mac OS X (now macOS).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lowendmac.com/2012/a-brief-history-of-the-classic-mac-os/|title=A Brief History of the Classic Mac OS – Low End Mac|date=26 July 2012|access-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005230817/http://lowendmac.com/2012/a-brief-history-of-the-classic-mac-os/|archive-date=5 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Apple MacOS XmacOS===

====Overview====

[[MacOSmacOS]]<ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2016/|time=36:28|title=Apple Events – WWDC Keynote June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911214036/https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2016/|archive-date=11 September 2017}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5jXg_NNiCA&t=2186 YouTube mirror.]</ref> previously '''Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X''' and later '''OS&nbsp;X''') is a series of [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] [[graphical user interface|graphical]] [[operating system]]s developed and marketed by [[Apple Inc.]] since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's [[Macintosh|Mac computers]]. Within the market of desktop, laptop and home computers, and by web usage, it is the [[Usage share of operating systems#Desktop and laptop computers|second most widely used desktop OS]], after [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref name="Net Applications">{{cite web |url=http://www.netmarketshare.com/ |title=Desktop Operating System Market Share |publisher=Net Applications |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203031223/http://www.netmarketshare.com/ |archive-date=3 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-os-ww-monthly-201109-201508 |title=Top 8 Operating Systems from Sept 2011 to Aug 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526/http://gs.statcounter.com/%23mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201012-201111-bar#all-os-ww-monthly-201109-201508 |archive-date=26 May 2012 }}</ref>

macOS is the direct successor to the [[classic Mac OS]], the line of [[Macintosh operating systems]] with nine releases from 1984 to 1999. macOS adopted the [[Unix]] kernel and inherited technologies developed between 1985 and 1997 at [[NeXT]], the company that Apple co-founder [[Steve Jobs]] created after leaving Apple in 1985. Releases from [[Mac OS X Leopard|Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard]]<ref name="leopard_unix_cert">{{cite web|title=Mac OS X Version 10.5 on Intel-based Macintosh computers|url=http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511222112/http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm|archive-date=11 May 2008|access-date=4 December 2014|publisher=The Open Group}}</ref> and thereafter are [[UNIX 03]] certified.<ref>* {{cite web|title=Mac OS X Version 10.6 on Intel-based Macintosh computers|url=http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116122629/http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm|archive-date=16 November 2014|access-date=4 December 2014|publisher=The Open Group}}