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Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16 1999, is the first operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
 released by Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
 based on their acquisition of NeXT
NeXT

NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets....
. Although it had a variation of the Platinum "look and feel" from Mac OS 8
Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is an operating system released by Apple Inc. on July 26 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7 , some six years previous....
, it is based on the OPENSTEP
OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems....
 (and thus, NEXTSTEP
NEXTSTEP

Nextstep was the original Object-oriented operating system, computer multitasking operating system that NeXT developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube....
) operating system instead of the classic Mac OS, giving users a preview of the future operating system Mac OS X
Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
.

Server 1.0 contains a mix of features from the classic Mac OS, NEXTSTEP and Mac OS X.






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Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16 1999, is the first operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
 released by Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
 based on their acquisition of NeXT
NeXT

NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets....
. Although it had a variation of the Platinum "look and feel" from Mac OS 8
Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is an operating system released by Apple Inc. on July 26 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7 , some six years previous....
, it is based on the OPENSTEP
OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems....
 (and thus, NEXTSTEP
NEXTSTEP

Nextstep was the original Object-oriented operating system, computer multitasking operating system that NeXT developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube....
) operating system instead of the classic Mac OS, giving users a preview of the future operating system Mac OS X
Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
.

Server 1.0 contains a mix of features from the classic Mac OS, NEXTSTEP and Mac OS X. It has a single menu bar across the top of the screen like Mac OS but file management is performed in Workspace Manager from NEXTSTEP instead of the Mac's Finder
Macintosh Finder

The Finder is the default application software program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications....
. The user interface still uses the Display PostScript
Display PostScript

Display PostScript is an on-screen display system. As the name implies, DPS uses the PostScript imaging model and language to generate on-screen graphics....
-based window server from NEXTSTEP, instead of the Quartz
Quartz (graphics layer)

Quartz specifically refers to a pair of Mac OS X technologies, each part of the Core Graphics framework: Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor. It includes both a 2D renderer in Core Graphics and the composition engine that sends instructions to the graphics card....
-based WindowServer
Quartz Compositor

Quartz Compositor is the windowing system in Mac OS X. It is responsible for presenting and maintaining rasterized, rendered graphics from the rest of the Core Graphics framework and other renderers in the Quartz family....
 which would appear a year later in Mac OS X Public Beta
Mac OS X Public Beta

The Mac OS X Public Beta is an early Software testing version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It was released to the public on September 13 2000 for US$29.95....
. Windows with unsaved content display a black dot in the window close button like NEXTSTEP. The Dock
Dock (computing)

The Dock is a prominent feature of the graphical user interface of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system, which is used to launch applications, and switch between running applications....
 and the Aqua appearance were not included; these were later added to Mac OS X.

"Carbon
Carbon (API)

Carbon is one of Apple Inc.'s procedural Application programming interfaces for the Apple Macintosh operating system. It permits a good degree of forward and backward compatibility between source code written to run on the older and now dated Mac OS history , and the newer Mac OS X....
", essentially a sub-set of "classic" Mac OS API calls, was also absent. This meant that the only native applications for OS X Server 1.0 were written for the "Yellow Box" API, which went on to become known as "Cocoa
Cocoa (API)

Cocoa is one of Apple Inc.'s native object-oriented application program environment for the Mac OS X operating system. It is one of four major Application programming interfaces available for Mac OS X; the others are Carbon , POSIX , and Java platform....
".

Server 1.0 also includes the first version of a NetBoot
NetBoot

NetBoot is a technology from Apple Inc. that enables New World ROM Macs to boot from a network.A disk image with a copy of Mac OS X or Mac OS 8/Mac OS 9 is stored on a server ....
 server, which allows computers to boot from a disk image over a local network. This was particularly useful in a school or other public-machine setting, as it allowed the machines to be booted from a single OS copy stored on Server 1.0, making it difficult for users to damage the OS by installing software – as soon as they signed out, the machine would re-boot with a fresh OS from the NetBoot server.

To run classic Mac OS applications, Mac OS X Server 1.0 includes the "Blue Box" which essentially ran a copy of Mac OS 8.5.1
Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is an operating system released by Apple Inc. on July 26 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7 , some six years previous....
 in a separate process as an emulation layer. This became the "Classic Environment
Classic (Mac OS X)

Classic, or Classic Environment, was a Computer hardware and software abstraction layer in Mac OS X that allowed Application software compatible with Mac OS 9 to run on the Mac OS X operating system....
" in Mac OS X, though it was no longer Mac OS 8.5.1 being run, but the latest version of Mac OS 9
Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple Inc. "Classic" Mac OS. Introduced on October 23 1999, Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever," highlighting Apple Sherlock Internet search capabilities, integration with Apple's free online services known as .Mac, and improved Open Transport networking....
.

Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 was replaced by a version based on Mac OS X 10.0 in 2001.

See also

  • Mac OS X Server
    Mac OS X Server

    Mac OS X Server is Apple's UNIX server operating system. Based on the same architecture as Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server includes additional services, applications and administration tools for managing and deploying servers....


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