Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Mac OS X, and Macworld has an interesting piece on the history leading up to it. Jason Snell goes so far as to say that the new operating system for Macs was 'an act of desperation' by Apple.
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The reason, he explains, is that while Apple had set a new direction for personal computers with the launch of the Macintosh in 1984, it had lost its way by the late 1990s … The simulation (zylo) mac os.
In 1984, a graphical user interface on a personal computer was revolutionary; by the late 1990s, not so much.
As revolutionary as the original Mac was, it was also an early-1980s project that didn't offer all sorts of features that would become commonplace by the late 1990s.
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That operating system had been originally designed to fit in a small memory footprint and run one app at a time. Its multitasking system was problematic; clicking on an item in the menu bar and holding down the mouse button would effectively stop the entire computer from working. Its memory management system was primitive. Apple needed to make something new, a faster and more stable system that could keep up with Microsoft, which was coming at Apple with the user-interface improvements of Windows 95 and the modern-OS underpinnings of Windows NT.
By 1996, says Snell, Apple had given up.
In a spectacularly humbling moment for Apple, the company began searching for a company from which it could buy or license an operating system or, at the least, use as the foundation of a new version of Mac OS. The company's management, led by CEO Gil Amelio and CTO Ellen Hancock, clearly had come to the conclusion that Apple itself was incapable of building the next-generation Mac OS.
We all know what happened… next.
Dec. 20, 1996–Apple Computer, Inc. today announced its intention to purchase NeXT Software Inc., in a friendly acquisition for $400 million. Pending regulatory approvals, all NeXT products, services, and technology research will become part of Apple Computer, Inc. As part of the agreement, Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, will return to Apple–the company he co-founded in 1976–reporting to Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Apple's Chairman and CEO.
The acquisition will bring together Apple's and NeXT's innovative and complementary technology portfolios and significantly strengthens Apple's position as a company advancing industry standards. Apple's leadership in ease-of-use and multimedia solutions will be married to NeXT's strengths in development software and operating environments for both the enterprise and Internet markets. NeXT's object oriented software development products will contribute to Apple's goal of creating a differentiated and profitable software business, with a wide range of products for enterprise, business, education, and home markets.
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The reason, he explains, is that while Apple had set a new direction for personal computers with the launch of the Macintosh in 1984, it had lost its way by the late 1990s … The simulation (zylo) mac os.
In 1984, a graphical user interface on a personal computer was revolutionary; by the late 1990s, not so much.
As revolutionary as the original Mac was, it was also an early-1980s project that didn't offer all sorts of features that would become commonplace by the late 1990s.
Embower Mac Os X
That operating system had been originally designed to fit in a small memory footprint and run one app at a time. Its multitasking system was problematic; clicking on an item in the menu bar and holding down the mouse button would effectively stop the entire computer from working. Its memory management system was primitive. Apple needed to make something new, a faster and more stable system that could keep up with Microsoft, which was coming at Apple with the user-interface improvements of Windows 95 and the modern-OS underpinnings of Windows NT.
By 1996, says Snell, Apple had given up.
In a spectacularly humbling moment for Apple, the company began searching for a company from which it could buy or license an operating system or, at the least, use as the foundation of a new version of Mac OS. The company's management, led by CEO Gil Amelio and CTO Ellen Hancock, clearly had come to the conclusion that Apple itself was incapable of building the next-generation Mac OS.
We all know what happened… next.
Dec. 20, 1996–Apple Computer, Inc. today announced its intention to purchase NeXT Software Inc., in a friendly acquisition for $400 million. Pending regulatory approvals, all NeXT products, services, and technology research will become part of Apple Computer, Inc. As part of the agreement, Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, will return to Apple–the company he co-founded in 1976–reporting to Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Apple's Chairman and CEO.
The acquisition will bring together Apple's and NeXT's innovative and complementary technology portfolios and significantly strengthens Apple's position as a company advancing industry standards. Apple's leadership in ease-of-use and multimedia solutions will be married to NeXT's strengths in development software and operating environments for both the enterprise and Internet markets. NeXT's object oriented software development products will contribute to Apple's goal of creating a differentiated and profitable software business, with a wide range of products for enterprise, business, education, and home markets.
Snell gives a good outline of the software challenges that followed, and says that's what makes the anniversary such an important one.
When we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X, it's important to realize what we're celebrating. We're celebrating a software release that was the culmination of Steve Jobs's return to Apple. We're celebrating the operating system we still use, two decades later. But we're also celebrating the foundation of iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
In that way, this isn't just the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X 10.0. It's the 20th anniversary of modern Apple, and the end of the dark days when Apple couldn't fix its own operating system.
The full piece is a good read.
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Ultimately from Old Englishbūr, from Proto-Germanic*būraz. Cognate with GermanBauer('birdcage'), Old Norsebúr, (whence Danishbur, Swedishbur('cage')).
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Digital diamond baseball mac os. embower (third-person singular simple presentembowers, present participleembowering, simple past and past participleembowered)
- (transitive,poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
- 1667, John Milton, 'Book IX', in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons],[…], ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, :
- Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank,
Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
- 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
- A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
- And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
- 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together
- The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'
- (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, line 225
- But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, line 225
- (intransitive) To form a bower.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 302-305:
- Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
- In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades
- High overarched embower; or scattered sedge
- Afloat
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 302-305:
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- embower in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- 'embower', in William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1914, .