Mac OS X 8 year Anniversary

I must apologize, I forgot something Tuesday….

Mac OS X turned 8 years old yesterday…. Can you believe it?

Over the years, my platform of choice has changed, and evolved with my demands. I started using Desqview/386, migrated to OS/2, and then moved to Mac OS 9, and then Mac OS X 10.0 (& higher). Why did I migrate from Os/2 to OS 9?

Because I saw that IBM couldn’t advertise their way out of a wet paper bag, and that OS/2 was dying the slow death of a thousand paper cuts… I loved OS/2, but when every vendor started to say “Just run the windows 3.1 application instead of a native OS/2 application”, I abandoned ship. It was clear no one really wanted to develop for a superior platform…

About that time, I was evaluating the next platform, and started to hear information about Copeland and Mac OS X. Mac OS X, on paper, offered many of the same features as OS/2, but was actively being developed, and I was doing tech support at Xerox for Macintosh systems…. So I purchased one of the first iMac’s (Rev B, 233 Mhz G3).

Since then, I haven’t regretted it. I am concerned that Bootcamp may actually reduce the pool of Macintosh Software, but I have not yet seen any widespread indications of that happening… If anything thing the iPhone developers seem to be encouraging people to take a second look at the Macintosh platform, so I must congratulate Apple on making the iPhone platform run on OS X. It was a good step to help leverage XCode & the Mac OS X platform.

Rob Griffiths, has written a piece on the features that great about Mac OS X. Overall, I can’t disagree with any of it. PDF support, stablity, etc…

Eight years and counting | Mac OS X | Editors’ Notes | Macworld: “Eight years and counting
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com

In case you’ve lost track of time, Tuesday marks the eighth anniversary of the release of Mac OS X (version 10.0.0). In that time, there have been 52 different releases of OS X, counting the public beta as well as major and minor updates. So in honor of this eighth birthday, here are eight great things about OS X.”

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