Macintosh compare and contrast

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Running Head : COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MAC OS X Comparing and Contrasting Mac OS X

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Comparing and Contrasting Mac OS X

Introduction

Mac OS X is one of the most popular Operating Systems in the world of Computing . In the 23 years of its history it has undergone several phases of developments and has

introduced some really remarkable innovations in the world of computing and softwares . This will compare and contrast the OS after giving its brief history to date

A Brief History of Mac OS

The Mac OS was born with the development of the first Macintosh in 1984 . At this time the OS was referred as System or System software . It was entitled the name Mac OS ' for the first time at the release of version 7 .6 in 1997 . The year 2000 was the benchmark in the history of Mac OS X as the new CEO Steve Jobs announced the new Unix based Mac OS X with new aqua interface , also supporting command line interface for the first time . This ended the development of the classic Mac Oses . Its last version was Mac OS 9 .2 . The Mac OS X series continued to evolved in a robust , strong and user friendly desktop Operating System . The Current version is Mac OS X 10 .4 Code Name Tiger . Released in 2005 it is one of the most modern desktop operating systems with many new innovative features , outshining its close rival Windows XP in nearly every aspect The latest version Mac OS X 10 .5 Codename Leopard ' is about to be released in the last week of April or first week of May this year

Comparing and Contrasting Mac OS X

The Mac OS prior to the release of OS X was a completely GUI based operating system without any command line support . Mac OS X is a completely different operating system based on a Unix core named Darwin which is built on the top of a XNU kernel . The operating system provides many standard Unix operations and functions through a command line interface . Over the layer of Darwin is built the Aqua interface . The Aqua theme is one of the most prominent changes in the new operating system . The current version Mac OS X 10 .4 Tiger supports both Power PC and Intel based processors . Though the softwares developed for earlier Mac OS are supported by the new OS X by an emulating layer called classic , though the feature is only supported for Power PC based Macs The OS provides a native development environment called Xcode , which supports common programming languages like C , C , Java etc . The latest Xcode tool has the ability to compile universal applications , which can run natively on both Intel and Power PC based Macs (What is...