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Mac OS X version 10.0, code named Cheetah, released on March 24, 2001 for a price of 129.95 American dollars, was the first official release of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. Mac OS X 10.0 superseded the Mac OS X Public Beta and preceded Mac OS X v10.1.

Mac OS X 10.0 was a radical departure from the previous "classic" Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X was Apple's answer to the long awaited call for a next generation Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X 10.0 introduced a brand new code base, completely separate from Mac OS 9's code base, and all other previous Apple operating systems. Mac OS X introduced a new Darwin Unix-like core, as well as introducing a totally new system of RAM memory management. Mac OS X is widely regarded to be the best operating system Apple has ever produced; however, Mac OS X 10.0 was a rocky start to the Mac OS X line plagued with missing features, and performance issues, although it was praised for a being a good start to a brand new operating system in terms of completeness, and overall operating system stability.

System Requirements

The System Requirements for Mac OS X 10.0 were not well received by the Macintosh community, as at the time the amount of RAM standard with Macintosh computers was 64 megabytes of RAM, while the Mac OS X 10.0 requirements called for 128 megabytes of RAM. As well, processor upgrade cards, which were quite popular for obsolete Power Mac G3 computers, were not supported (and never officially have been, but can be made to work through third-party utility programs).

Supported Computers - Power Macintosh G3
, G3 B&W
, G4, G4 Cube
, iMac, PowerBook G3
, PowerBook G4
, iBook
RAM required - 128 megabytes of RAM recommended

: - 64MB minimum (barely usable)

Hard Drive Space - 1.5 gigabytes

: - 800MB for the minimal install

Features

Dock
- the Dock was a brand new way of organizing your Mac OS X applications on a user interface, and a complete change from the classic method of Application launching in previous Apple Operating Systems.
XNU kernel
- the Unix-like kernel was a first for Macintosh operating systems, and was one of the largest changes from a technical stand point in Mac OS X.
Terminal - the Terminal was a feature that allowed access to Mac OS X's under-workings, namely the Unix core.
Mail (e-mail client)
Address Book
New word processor replacing SimpleText
called TextEdit
.
Full preemptive multitasking support, a long awaited feature on the Mac.
PDF Support (create PDFs from any application)
Aqua
Interface
Built on Darwin
, a Unix-like operating system
OpenGL
AppleScript
Supports Carbon
and Cocoa
APIs
Sherlock
desktop and Internet search
Protected memory - memory protection so that if an application crashed, the memory would not be corrupted.

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