Kodiak: Mac OS X was born a bear
13 September 2010
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On September 13, 2000, Apple released a public preview of Mac OS X, giving the world its first look at the then revolutionary Aqua user interface. Based on the NeXT OS, which the company purchased in 1996 prefacing the return of Steve Jobs, OS X was Apple’s last best hope to create a modern operating system after the failure of Copland, which itself was the culmination of years of failure.
Codenamed Kodiak, the 2000 OS X preview, wasn’t free with Apple charging $29.95 for the privilege of testing, and providing feedback for, the still nascent operating system.
The company didn’t formally adopt its feline naming motif until the next year. Mac OS X 10.0 was formally released as “Cheetah” in 2001 and outside of Apple’s fanbase generally got a cool reception.
Though Classic hung around on my various Macs until 2005 or so — I think Civilization II was the last holdout — I’ve been a pretty happy and satisfied OS X user from day one.
That said, don’t you think it’s about time that Apple did something revolutionary or least radically evolutionary with their OS? Some folks think that’s already happening…
What’s your take?
[...] This post was Twitted by rocr69 [...]
[...] Mac blogsphere was pretty good about reminding the rest of us that Mac OS X was born a bear with the release of the first beta, Kodiak. However, wedged in between OS X 10.0 Cheetah and OS X [...]
[...] On March 24, 2001, a decade ago, Apple launched Mac OS X v10.0 “Cheetah” and, honestly, it kind of blew. Whereas it was a lot more stable than Classic (what wasn’t?), Cheetah was slow, native software was non-existant and the still incomplete Aqua interface was so beautiful people skinned it. See also: Kodiak: OS X was born a bear [...]
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