The macOS operating system, formerly known as Mac OS X, turned 20 years old on Wednesday, March 24. And even though Scott Forstall, who was considered by many to be the second Steve Jobs, has not been at the company since 2012, he still managed to post on Twitter , not only wishing the system a happy birthday, but also remembering how Steve Jobs named it.
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“I still remember when we named you. In a small room in IL1. As Steve slashed a large X on the wall and smiled. Look how far you've come from a young cheetah.” he said ForstallThe first Mac OS X was called Cheetah. Then came other big cats like Puma, Tiger, Leopard andoneespecially Lion, who in 2011onebrought to the desktop operating system AppI speak Czech.
Happy 20th Birthday Mac OS X! I still remember when we named you. In a small room in IL1. When Steve slashed a large X on the wall and smiled. Look at how far you've come from a young Cheetah.
— Scott Forstall (@forstall) March 24, 2021
Mac OS X 10.0 was a radical departureonem from the classic Mac OS. It introduced a completely new code base separate from Mac OS 9 and all previous operating systems Applu and had a new Darwin Unix kernel that included a new memory management system. Current macOS Big Speaking on it no longer belongs to the X series, as it is the first representative of version 11.
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Scott Forstall he worked for the company NeXT since 1992, where he also met Steve Jobs. The one to Applu returned in 1997 and Forstall took with him. Apple however he had to NeXT buy. IN Applu then became senior vice president of software in 2003 and has been involved in iPhone development since 2005. By virtue of having been at its birth, he is, too Forstall considered the "father" iOS". In 2006, he also took the lead in the development of Mac OS X. He left the company in 2012 after the controversy it caused Apple Maps. The ones in the system iOS replaced Google's solution, but it suffered from a large number of errors in its documentation. He was replaced by Craig Federighi, who heads the company's software division Apple until today.
