![]() ![]() ![]() The first public release of Mac OS X released to consumers was a Public Beta released on September 13, 2000.Do you want to find out exactly how well your Mac is performing? Maybe you want to see how it compares to other machines with similar specifications, or maybe you’re curious about how much faster that shiny new Mac you saw on sale really is, compared to the one you have now?īenchmarking is a way of measuring all aspects of your Mac’s hardware and software, such as disk speed, GPU performance, and graphic performance. At this WWDC, Apple also showed Mac OS X booting off of a HFS Plus formatted drive for the first time. Apple also announced that the Yellow Box layer had been renamed Cocoa and began to move away from their commitment to providing the Yellow Box on Windows. Īt the 1999 WWDC, Apple revealed Quartz, a new Portable Document Format (PDF) based windowing system for the operating system that was not encumbered with licensing fees to Adobe like the Display PostScript windowing system of NeXTSTEP. They also announced a new driver model called I/O Kit, intended to replace the Driver Kit used in NeXTSTEP citing Driver Kit's lack of power management and hot-swap capabilities and its lack of automatic configuration capability. Īt the same conference, Apple announced that the Mach side of the kernel had been updated with sources from the OSFMK 7.3 (Open Source Foundation Mach Kernel) and the BSD side of the kernel had been updated with sources from the FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD projects. This modified interface, called Carbon, would eliminate approximately 2000 troublesome API calls (of about 8000 total) and replace them with calls compatible with a modern OS. Key APIs from the Macintosh Toolbox would be implemented in Mac OS X to run directly on the BSD layers of the operating system instead of in the emulated Macintosh layer. Mac OS X would add another developer API to the existing ones in Rhapsody. At the 1998 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced a move that was intended as a response to complaints from Macintosh software developers who were not happy with the two options (Yellow Box and Blue Box) available in Rhapsody. ![]()
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