It took a little while to switch completely, but I never looked back. – Steve Jobs on Mac OS X’s Acqua user interface, January 2000 “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” ![]() I could now run my favourite development tools right on my personal computer! I was accustomed at the time to use zTerm to connect to my University’s mainframe or ssh into my web hosting provider. I especially loved the fact that Unix was underneath, and that you could open a terminal and launch a shell on your own computer. Many features were missing at first, and performance was terrible, but it felt like the future (and according to Steve Jobs, its candy-gloss UI was “lickable”). I believe I switched for good on its second iteration Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). If you need to run a particular version of one of Apples Mac operating systems, this tool can let you find all the Macs that can run any version of macOS from OS X 10. I haven’t been using Mac OS X for twenty years, but I did install the initial beta, and every version since, eventhough at first I essentially booted into Mac OS 9 when I wanted to get things done. ![]() Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Mac OS X, now called macOS Big Sur (11).
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