{"id":693,"date":"2010-09-13T10:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-09-13T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:57:19","slug":"mac-os-x-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/693\/mac-os-x-turns-10","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X Turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/154036\/2010\/09\/osxorigins.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macworld\/osx_beta_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mac OS X Public Beta CD\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 years ago today, Apple released the Mac OS X Public Beta.  It was the general public&#8217;s first chance to experience the new OS and the commercial debut of the software (a previous release, confusingly named &#8220;OS X Server,&#8221; was based on a pre-OS X prototype called Rhapsody).<\/p>\n<p>The Public Beta sold for $29.95, and Apple offered that amount off the purchase of OS X 10.0 for those who bought the Beta.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a fan of OS X, and this anniversary got me wondering how development on this very innovative OS started.  After some digging, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/154036\/2010\/09\/osxorigins.html\" target=\"_blank\">a brief history on the origins of OS X<\/a> for Macworld.  I was fortunate to have the help of Avie Tevanian, former VP of Software Engineering at Apple (1997-2006), as a reference to help me get some points straight.<\/p>\n<p>While I was at it, I also wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/154037\/2010\/09\/osxbeta_whatschanged.html\" target=\"_blank\">a shorter piece<\/a> about some of the differences between the Public Beta and Snow Leopard (the most recent version of OS X).<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on OS X?  Do you use it?  Did you use it?  Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago today, Apple released the Mac OS X Public Beta. It was the general public&#8217;s first chance to experience the new OS and the commercial debut of the software (a previous release, confusingly named &#8220;OS X Server,&#8221; was based on a pre-OS X prototype called Rhapsody). The Public Beta sold for $29.95, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}