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- jchndler, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31Happy Birthday OS X. Thanks for being the most advanced operating system available and making my life much more exciting.
- ReindeerFlotila, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Nice retrospective from the man who has probably written more about Mac OS X than anyone else.
- paulmetzger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Well, maybe 5 years since they started calling it OS X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Dont like Unix?? Must be a noob.
- gaius_baltar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15It's been a good 3 years with you, OS X. Thanks for making me believe in the Macintosh. It took alot to change this curmudgeon away from Windows. (I maintain that 10.1 and 10.2 were silly looking)
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18I bet you love "lamp" too.
- CyberSmackdown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I hear Ballmer likes mature 5 year olds...
- zwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hooray for OS X. Five years old, and ten years maturer and advanced than anything from Redmond.
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14When is unix, BSD and linux's birthday?
If not for them, OS X wouldn't be what it is today. - guydoyen, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7I've first had Windows 98 SE, then Linux on my PC and now I've Mac OS X Tiger with my Mac Mini. Mac OS X is really the best operating system. I don't think I'll return to Windows.
- HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Cocoa rocks!
- HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That must not be the Lacero from the MacRumors forums (and this Lacero even has the same avatar)!
I believe he's joking. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6CyberSmackdown- that made me laugh out loud...trying to describe it to my sister was a chore though...
- JuliusErving, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Gotta love the nostalgia =^) "They didn't spend years trying to figure out why the world stuck with MS-DOS while they were literally living in the future. They never played the maze." http://www.guidebookgallery.org/tutorials/mac1984/timetoplaythemaze (linked from article)
- matthewwanderer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8HB, OS X.
I was there when you were just a little Beta Packet. So cute. In fact, I have one of you in the closet still. Shrink wrapped. - Laton, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I will actually agree with you on the point of OS X being less; it is less of a barrier to getting your tasks done. 'It just works' is so paramount to me and millions of other Mac users out there that just want to get work done. When you use OS X, you feel like you are using your applications, whereas when you use windows, you feel like you are using windows. By that I mean, OS X fades away whereas windows gets in your way.
- rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There is a nice little nod to Don Crab and Jeff Raskin in the article. Nice touch. Don Crab was an incredible teacher, writer and Mac enthusiast. He saw the Apple turn around coming but didn't live to see it happen.
- orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Interresting fact. That song is copywrited to some kindergarden teacher. OOO I smell bacon! it's the RIAA run! run for your lives!!! hide your torrents
- Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6OS X is the best operating system on the market, hands down. 5 years ago it was an experiment, nobody knew if it was going to be succesful. I'm very happy to see it be the first commercially succesful GREAT operating system. It has succeeded where Amiga, Be OS, and ultimately NeXT (sort of) failed.
- elook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Digg. If only because the person who submitted knows the difference between its and it's.
- gigabitten, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7sure, if you like mediocre programs and viruses
- gigabitten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@orangetiki. that song was written by john lenon and bought by michael jackson, get your facts straight
- zwei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Here's to many more!
- azar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Laton: Typical repeating of a ***** answer. No wonder no one takes us mac users seriously. I am a hardcore mac user. In fact, I do not even own a windows machine. But at the computer labs at school I am forced to use windows. Does Windows "get in the way" more than OS X? HELL NO. Do I like OS X better? Of course. How does OS X not get in the way? Both operating systems have windows, a taskbar/dock-type device, folders, mouse, notifications, etc. Most of the apps I use are even for windows too. Such as office, photoshop, flash, etc. So how does using OS X somehow magically not get in the way, but Windows does? I'm confused.
Happy birthday to OS X, btw. Here's to more good years to come! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And the world will celebrate the birthday of an OS that matters to most of the worlds population. Thank you Bill Gates and WindowsXP!
- BillyK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Huzzah for OSX.
I'll tell ya, even in the dark days of the 90s, I never worried that Apple would go under. It wasn't until I played with the Beta of OSX - "They're gonna replace my OS with THIS!?" - that I worried Apple could die.
They really turned it around, and I'm glad I was wrong. Cheers to OSX - the best OS in the world. - torrentado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3happy bday!
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Happy Birthday MacOSX... you have made my life (the one that involves computers) that much easier.. can't wait to see what is around the corner..
Woot! - Metta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5OS X made me love my computer.
Dugg! - scrapstyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Windows XP will turn 5 years old on 10/25/2006 if you're wondering.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Probably well before Vista at this point.
Didn't want to take it there, but couldn't let it slide either. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8True.. and more partying is never a bad thing *downs Yager*
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cocoa does rock. I love working with it.
- simX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Um, yeah. Complaining about paying for 10.1 as a bugfix is lame, because you EITHER bought 10.0 OR 10.1, not both. If you bought 10.0, 10.1 was free. So you were either paying for your first version of Mac OS X, or you got the bugfix for free.
(Complaining about paying full price for 10.2, though, is entirely warranted. I do wish Apple would bring back upgrade pricing -- even a simple $30 discount would be nice for us dedicated users...) - liveinabin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmm. A bittersweet thing for me. I LOVE OSX. It's just the perfect operating system. Hasn't crashed in 3 years.
However, I remember putting my £100 down for 10.1. That's the last time I'm paying to bugfix someone elses software again, and I resented having to pay another hundred for 10.2. Still, in these post Jaguar times, that's just a dim and distant memory. Happy birthday OSX :) - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In 2007 with intel & Leopard, apple will take flight!
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"OS X is the best operating system on the market, hands down."
You forgot a word in there; OS X is the best /desktop/ operating system on the market. Darwin itself is pretty convoluted; the Mach microkernel makes driver development a breeze, but it makes threading an absolute nightmare (resulting in two layers of threading translation before the thread can actually be consumed by the kernel). While this has been progressively getting better with each release (and with patches within releases), it's definitely a bottleneck for server systems, which is why super-computers built with Xserves usually run a BSD or Linux.
"5 years ago it was an experiment, nobody knew if it was going to be succesful. I'm very happy to see it be the first commercially succesful GREAT operating system. It has succeeded where Amiga, Be OS, and ultimately NeXT (sort of) failed."
NeXT didn't really fail, it just was bought by Apple, and turned into OS X. Ultimately, NeXT was an Operating System in need of a computer, and Apple was a hardware company in search of an Operating System to sell their machines with. Marrying these two companies made OS X what it is today. - skellener, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, it's really much older than 5 years if you think of it as Openstep for PPC.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Isn't it about time for Mac OS XI ??
- funkyebk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Happy Bday to OS X...
You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday too yeah!
- the Beatles
(and it really is- and I'm an Apple Kool-aid drinker... this is a special day) - hyperpasta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3^ I see his point (as a fellow Mac user, btw). Macs don't send up taskbar balloons, and (while this is Dell's problem) don't come with advertising on the desktop. Etcetera, etcetera.
- michaelstone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Windows is not better. On OS X, I can plug near any hardware in and not bother to install drivers. I can connect to any network without having to configure a bunch of stuff. I can surf the internet and not have to spend a hour/week updating antivirus and antispyware tools and then running diagnostics on them. My registry isn't confusing and causing my computer to slow down. I've never had to reinstall OS X, but I reinstall Windows about every 6 to 9 months.
And finally, my father, who's not the most computer talented, used a Mac for the first time and could figure everything out easily. He's been on Windows for years and still gets pissed at it's awful nuances. - gigabitten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmm, are you sure TODAY is the birthday? its only a couple days since apples birthday and they usually introduce things on THAT day, not a couple days before
- dickyducky, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6The spirit of creativity, the soul of new apple.
- aggieandrew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3azar, very classy ending almost every point with an insult!
I think a lot of these folks are actually NEW mac users that have come over from windows and like the mac better. - starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i understand everyones need to recount apples woes... and he's not wrong-those were all attempts a innovation. when you attempt innovation you have some boners. but it was always better than the alternatives. it was my advantage for years because i could print and the windows boxes were having trouble. apple began having trouble when it started doing things the american way... then jobs came back and things got insanely great again. apple was never in danger of going out of business because that equation is based on me and people like me switching to windows. it wouldn't have happened. won't happen. even if apple had switched to some NT monstrosity, and i have wounds it inflicted as proof i know, that the Mac OS would have survived in public domain.
- VadimKatchkakov, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yes for I too am much gratefull from the Apple operating systems to be born and better being staying alive for all the years till here. Best of wishes Apple for the happy birthdays today!
- kram, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Makes me think back to buying the first release and shortly after installing it, realizing what a peice of crap it was. Just goes to show you how much has changed in five years. I LOVE TIGER!!!
- shauncullen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anchorman reference. Awesome.
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