The latter was released in July, 2012 and was the last animal named release of Mac OS X. In 2013 Apple introduced Mac OS X 10.9 'Mavericks', which was the first Mac operating system to support 64-bit Intel processors. Mavericks is also a famous surfing beach in Northern California, not far from the Cupertino headquarters of the company. Mac OS X 10.2 'Jaguar': For the first time, Mac OS X comes in two flavours, regular and Server editions. Jaguar 10.2 Server costs more, and uses a serial-number, but with general-user apps replaced with administrator-level server toys, it is a single CD of 635MB.
There is an approximate time-line for almost every Mac OS X;
Softwareupdate -history This only works in modern versions of MacOS like MacOS Mojave and MacOS High Sierra, and the –history flag is not available in earlier releases.
with a few exceptions. The longest lag between new versions
may have been the time between Panther and Leopard (Tiger)
- Update from High Sierra or older If you're running High Sierra or an older version you will need to do the following: Launch the App Store on your Mac (click on the blue icon containing a white A.
- MacOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.' S desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. It is the successor to macOS Mojave and was announced at WWDC 2019 on June 3, 2019 and released to the public on October 7, 2019. Catalina is the first version of macOS to support only 64-bit applications and the first to include Activation Lock.
as that also was a very refined version due to many updates..
Mar 24, 2016 - Learn which OS X versions and builds originally shipped with
or are available for your .. iMac, Date introduced, Original Mac OS X included
This may not answer your question; while there are a few other Support
articles that had covered approximate dates of inception, MacTracker.ca
Macos Sierra Update History Update
application has a software section that has dates for each OS X. Also a
few pages in EveryMac.com likely has some information. ~Wikipedia?
Jump to Release history - .. support, Kernel, Date announced, Release date, Most Midi player with piano display.
recent version .. Tiger did not support 64-bit GUI applications, only 64-bit CLI app-
lications. .. With the exception of Mac OS X Server 1.0 and the original public beta,
OS X .. Prior to its release, version 10.0 was code named 'Cheetah' ..
OS X El Capitan · History of OS X · OS X Yosemite · OS X Mavericks
+Older articles from third-party sites, suggest about five years including
supported updates from Apple. Subject to change (& more recent fact)
So there is some information out there on this topic.
Update To Macos Sierra 10.13
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
Macos Sierra Update To Catalina
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