Mac OS X operating system from Apple, is 10 years old. On March 24, 2001, Apple launched Mac OS X indeed "Cheetah," a slow, unreliable, offering only limited applications, but based on solid foundations. Mac OS X, version 10.0, was not reading DVDs, CDs did not seal and suggested ... Internet Explorer as your browser.
More troubling, Aqua was not hardware accelerated (Quartz Extreme did not exist) and Mac OS X requested a lot of memory for time: 128 MB minimum when many computers were only 32 or 64 MB Still , Mac OS X 10.0 foreshadowed what would become Mac OS X, despite its many flaws. It was not until Mac OS X 10.2 for a truly usable on a daily basis, 10.3 for the core functions of Mac OS X - Exposé - and 10.4 for real research.
Since then, Mac OS X PowerPC and dropped the rose on two new architectures: ARM and x86. And Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, expected this summer, should forget the rare 10.0 nostalgic this time ... 
More troubling, Aqua was not hardware accelerated (Quartz Extreme did not exist) and Mac OS X requested a lot of memory for time: 128 MB minimum when many computers were only 32 or 64 MB Still , Mac OS X 10.0 foreshadowed what would become Mac OS X, despite its many flaws. It was not until Mac OS X 10.2 for a truly usable on a daily basis, 10.3 for the core functions of Mac OS X - Exposé - and 10.4 for real research.
Since then, Mac OS X PowerPC and dropped the rose on two new architectures: ARM and x86. And Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, expected this summer, should forget the rare 10.0 nostalgic this time ...
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