Mac OS X Server 1.0

Mac OS X Server 1.0 left in 1999, is the first operating system of Apple based on NeXT. In spite of the look Platinum of Mac OS 8, it was based on the operating system NeXTSTEP instead of OS Mac Classique, which gave to the users an outline future Mac OS X.

Mac OS X Server 1.0 is one mix of the functionalities of Mac OS of NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X . The bar of menu in top of the screen is similar to that which Mac OS , but the management of the files is carried out in the manager resulting from NEXTSTEP instead of the finder. The user interface always uses Display PostScript which is drawn from NeXTSTEP . WindowServer will appear later in Beta public of Mac OS X . The windows whose contents were not saved have a black button as in NeXTSTEP . It does not include the Dock or the Aqua interface which were added later in Mac OS X.

This version is accompanied by the first version of NetBoot waiter, which was shown particularly useful in the schools or the work stations of public use, because it made it possible to start starting from a single image disc of OS based on this waiter. This prevented the users from deteriorating OS because at once the disconnected user, the machine rebootait with an OS " neuf" exit of the NetBoot waiter.

To make it possible to make turn the application of Traditional Mac OS , it includes the " Blue Box" , which contains primarily a copy of Mac OS 8.5.1 in an independent process, in the shape of a layer of emulation. This became the interface Classic of Mac OS X. It was not any more Mac OS 8.5.1 which turned, but the last version of Mac OS 9. Mac OS X Server 1.0 was replaced by version 10.0 of Mac OS X in 2001.

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