Features
- Dock — the Dock was a new way of organizing one's Mac OS X applications on a user interface, and a change from the classic method of Application launching in previous Mac OS systems.
- Mach 3.0 — the Unix-like microkernel was used for XNU operating systems, and was one of the largest changes from a technical standpoint in Mac OS X.
- Terminal — the Terminal was a feature that allowed access to Mac OS X's underpinnings, namely the Unix core. Mac OS had previously had the distinction of being one of the few operating systems with no command line interface at all.
- 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 XNU, a Unix-like operating system and its Darwin development platform.
- OpenGL
- AppleScript
- Supports Carbon and Cocoa APIs
- Sherlock desktop and Internet search
- Protected memory — memory protection so that if an application corrupts its memory, the memory of other applications will not be corrupted.
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
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