Macintosh OS X (ten) é um sistema de 'desktop' baseado no Rhapsody. Macintosh OS X é feito pela Apple Computers e correm máquinas Motorola/IBM PowerPC.
Macintosh OS X é no fundo o Rhapsody 2.0 optimizado para o Apple’s PowerPC , um poderosoUNIX com a amigavel cara do Macintosh.
“Forget a dual operating system strategy. In his keynote address at Apple’s 1998 Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs, Apple’s interim CEO, says all the company’s operating system plans are converging into one entity: Mac OS X (10), due next year.
“Mac OS 8 and Rhapsody will be the “parents” of Mac OS X, due the third quarter of 1999. The best parts of Rhapsody will be integrated into the Mac OS to make it a modern operating system.
“Mac OS X will be targeted for G3 systems and their predecessors; all shipping products will run Mac OS X. It will be 100% PowerPC native; all 68k code will be excised. The upcoming OS is slated to have protected memory, enhanced virtual memory (with no more fixed size heaps), preemptive multitasking, fast networking, and fast file I/O. It will also run Mac OS 8 compatible applications transparently.”
“Mac OS X the biggest leap in the Mac OS since 1984, bringing it into new territory, but bringing all of us and current applications with it.” —Steve Jobs
Tipo de SO: proprietary UNIX
Data de lançamento: primeiro quarto de 1999
“A beta of Mac OS X is due in the first quarter of 1999 with a commercial product due in the third quarter. Allegro (Mac OS 8.5) will be released in September; an Allegro tweak (probably Mac OS 8.6) will come out in the first quarter of 1999, and Mac OS X will hit the streets in the third quarter of 1999.” —Dennis Sellers, “The X-Files: Rhapsody, Allegro + Sonata = Mac OS 10”
Versão corrente: Mac OS X Server 1.0
IBM/Motorola PowerPC G3
Número máximo de processadores:
Kernel: MACH
POSIX: compativel
“I expect there’s some work to port a Unix app to MacOS X, especially one that uses any of the Unix System-V APIs. BSD-flavored apps should port easily to MacOS X. Of course, the windowing systems of Unix and MacOS X are completely different, so don’t expect to easily port any X-windows apps.” — Steve Byan
Periféricos:
Ficheiros de sistema suportáveis:
- preferred file system: HFS+ (NRWF)
- file systems can read/write/format: HFS (DRWF), FAT (RWF)
- file systems can read/write: FAT32 (RW), VFAT (RW), UFS (RW), DVD-R (RW), DVD-R/W (RW), DVD-RAM (RW)
- file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660 (Rw), CD-i (Rw), VCD (Rw), ECD (Rw), PD (Rw), CD (Rw), DVD-Video (Rw), DVD-ROM (Rw)
MS-DOS (with third party Virtual PC), Windows 3.1 (with third party Virtual PC), Windows 95 (with third party Virtual PC or SoftWindows95), Windows 98 (with third party Virtual PC or SoftWindows98)
Motor de gráficos:
Enhanced QuickDraw
UNIX shells
Operador de interface(gráfico):
Macintosh ToolBox
“From the WWDC98 charts, Mac OS X’s CoreOS is essentially a Mach system kernel (mk7.x + other advancements) with a POSIX-like system interface very similar to *BSD-lite servers (which includes sockets), IOKit, VFS file system interface (a BSD 4.4 thing), and AppleTalk.” —Tuan Truong
